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-title: "Storing and Retrieving data using Arvados Keep"
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+title: "Uploading data"
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-h1. Storing and Retrieving data using Arvados Keep
-
-This tutorial introduces you to the Arvados file storage system.
-
-
-*This tutorial assumes that you are "logged into an Arvados VM instance":{{site.basedoc}}/user/getting_started/ssh-access.html#login, and have a "working environment.":{{site.basedoc}}/user/getting_started/check-environment.html*
-
-The Arvados distributed file system is called *Keep*. Keep is a content-addressable file system. This means that files are managed using special unique identifiers derived from the _contents_ of the file, rather than human-assigned file names (specifically, the md5 hash). This has a number of advantages:
-* Files can be stored and replicated across a cluster of servers without requiring a central name server.
-* Systematic validation of data integrity by both server and client because the checksum is built into the identifier.
-* Minimizes data duplication (two files with the same contents will result in the same identifier, and will not be stored twice.)
-* Avoids data race conditions (an identifier always points to the same data.)
-
-h1. Putting Data into Keep
+This tutorial describes how to to upload new Arvados data collections using the command line tool @arv keep put@.
-We will start with downloading a freely available VCF file from the "Personal Genome Project (PGP)":http://www.personalgenomes.org subject "hu599905":https://my.personalgenomes.org/profile/hu599905 to a staging directory on the VM, and then add it to Keep.
+notextile. <div class="spaced-out">
-In the following tutorials, replace <b><code>you</code></b> with your user id.
+{% include 'tutorial_expectations' %}
-First, log into the Arvados VM instance and set up the staging area:
-
-notextile. <pre><code>~$ <span class="userinput">mkdir /scratch/<b>you</b></span></code></pre>
-
-Next, download the file:
+h3. Upload
+To upload a file to Keep using @arv keep put@:
<notextile>
-<pre><code>~$ <span class="userinput">cd /scratch/<b>you</b></span>
-/scratch/<b>you</b>$ <span class="userinput">curl -o var-GS000016015-ASM.tsv.bz2 'https://warehouse.personalgenomes.org/warehouse/f815ec01d5d2f11cb12874ab2ed50daa+234+K@ant/var-GS000016015-ASM.tsv.bz2'</span>
- % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
- Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
-100 216M 100 216M 0 0 10.0M 0 0:00:21 0:00:21 --:--:-- 9361k
+<pre><code>~$ <span class="userinput">arv keep put var-GS000016015-ASM.tsv.bz2</span>
+216M / 216M 100.0%
+Collection saved as ...
+qr1hi-4zz18-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
</code></pre>
</notextile>
-{% include 'notebox_begin' %}
-
-If you have your own data, for example @MyData.vcf@, you can use @scp@ or @rsync@ to copy from your local workstation to the shell VM (run this on your local workstation):
+The output value @qr1hi-4zz18-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@ is the uuid of the Arvados collection created.
-notextile. <pre><code>~$ <span class="userinput">scp MyData.vcf <b>you@shell</b>.arvados:/scratch/<b>you</b>/MyData.vcf</span></code></pre>
+The file used in this example is a freely available TSV file containing variant annotations from "Personal Genome Project (PGP)":http://www.pgp-hms.org participant "hu599905.":https://my.pgp-hms.org/profile/hu599905), downloadable "here":https://warehouse.pgp-hms.org/warehouse/f815ec01d5d2f11cb12874ab2ed50daa+234+K@ant/var-GS000016015-ASM.tsv.bz2.
-{% include 'notebox_end' %}
-
-Now use @arv keep put@ to add your VCF data to Keep, then delete the local copy of the file:
+<notextile><a name="dir"></a></notextile>It is also possible to upload an entire directory with @arv keep put@:
<notextile>
-<pre><code>/scratch/<b>you</b>$ <span class="userinput">arv keep put var-GS000016015-ASM.tsv.bz2</span>
-c1bad4b39ca5a924e481008009d94e32+210
-/scratch/<b>you</b>$ <span class="userinput">rm var-GS000016015-ASM.tsv.bz2</span>
+<pre><code>~$ <span class="userinput">mkdir tmp</span>
+~$ <span class="userinput">echo "hello alice" > tmp/alice.txt</span>
+~$ <span class="userinput">echo "hello bob" > tmp/bob.txt</span>
+~$ <span class="userinput">echo "hello carol" > tmp/carol.txt</span>
+~$ <span class="userinput">arv keep put tmp</span>
+0M / 0M 100.0%
+Collection saved as ...
+qr1hi-4zz18-yyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
</code></pre>
</notextile>
-The output value @c1bad4b39ca5a924e481008009d94e32+210@ from @arv keep put@ is the Keep locator. This enables you to access the file you just uploaded, and is explained in the next section.
-
-h2. Putting a directory
-
-You can also use @arv keep put@ to add an entire directory:
+In both examples, the @arv keep put@ command created a collection. The first collection contains the single uploaded file. The second collection contains the entire uploaded directory.
-<notextile>
-<pre><code>/scratch/<b>you</b>$ <span class="userinput">mkdir tmp</span>
-/scratch/<b>you</b>$ <span class="userinput">echo "hello alice" > tmp/alice.txt</span>
-/scratch/<b>you</b>$ <span class="userinput">echo "hello bob" > tmp/bob.txt</span>
-/scratch/<b>you</b>$ <span class="userinput">echo "hello carol" > tmp/carol.txt</span>
-/scratch/<b>you</b>$ <span class="userinput">arv keep put tmp</span>
-0M / 0M 100.0%
-887cd41e9c613463eab2f0d885c6dd96+83
-</code></pre>
-</notextile>
-
-h1. Getting Data from Keep
-
-In Keep, information is stored in *data blocks*. Data blocks are normally between 1 byte and 64 megabytes in size. If a file exceeds the maximum size of a single data block, the file will be split across multiple data blocks until the entire file can be stored. These data blocks may be stored and replicated across multiple disks, servers, or clusters. Each data block has its own identifier for the contents of that specific data block.
-
-In order to reassemble the file, Keep stores a *collection* data block which lists in sequence the data blocks that make up the original file. A collection data block may store the information for multiple files, including a directory structure.
-
-In this example we will use @c1bad4b39ca5a924e481008009d94e32+210@ which we added to keep in the previous section. First let us examine the contents of this collection using @arv keep get@:
-
-<notextile>
-<pre><code>/scratch/<b>you</b>$ <span class="userinput">arv keep get c1bad4b39ca5a924e481008009d94e32+210</span>
-. 204e43b8a1185621ca55a94839582e6f+67108864 b9677abbac956bd3e86b1deb28dfac03+67108864 fc15aff2a762b13f521baf042140acec+67108864 323d2a3ce20370c4ca1d3462a344f8fd+25885655 0:227212247:var-GS000016015-ASM.tsv.bz2
-</code></pre>
-</notextile>
+@arv keep put@ accepts quite a few optional command line arguments, which are described "on the arv subcommands":{{site.baseurl}}/sdk/cli/subcommands.html#arv-keep-put page.
-The command @arv keep get@ fetches the contents of the locator @c1bad4b39ca5a924e481008009d94e32+210@. This is a locator for a collection data block, so it fetches the contents of the collection. In this example, this collection consists of a single file @var-GS000016015-ASM.tsv.bz2@ which is 227212247 bytes long, and is stored using four sequential data blocks, <code>204e43b8a1185621ca55a94839582e6f+67108864</code>, <code>b9677abbac956bd3e86b1deb28dfac03+67108864</code>, <code>fc15aff2a762b13f521baf042140acec+67108864</code>, <code>323d2a3ce20370c4ca1d3462a344f8fd+25885655</code>.
+h3. Locate your collection in Workbench
-Let's use @arv keep get@ to download the first datablock:
-
-notextile. <pre><code>/scratch/<b>you</b>$ <span class="userinput">arv keep get 204e43b8a1185621ca55a94839582e6f+67108864 > block1</span></code></pre>
-
-Let's look at the size and compute the md5 hash of @block1@:
-
-<notextile>
-<pre><code>/scratch/<b>you</b>$ <span class="userinput">ls -l block1</span>
--rw-r--r-- 1 you group 67108864 Dec 9 20:14 block1
-/scratch/<b>you</b>$ <span class="userinput">md5sum block1</span>
-204e43b8a1185621ca55a94839582e6f block1
-</code></pre>
-</notextile>
-
-Notice that the block identifer <code>204e43b8a1185621ca55a94839582e6f+67108864</code> of:
-* the md5 hash @204e43b8a1185621ca55a94839582e6f@ which matches the md5 hash of @block1@
-* a size hint @67108864@ which matches the size of @block1@
-
-Next, let's use @arv keep get@ to download and reassemble @var-GS000016015-ASM.tsv.bz2@ using the following command:
-
-<notextile>
-<pre><code>/scratch/<b>you</b>$ <span class="userinput">arv keep get c1bad4b39ca5a924e481008009d94e32+210/var-GS000016015-ASM.tsv.bz2 .</span>
-</code></pre>
-
-This downloads the file @var-GS000016015-ASM.tsv.bz2@ described by collection @c1bad4b39ca5a924e481008009d94e32+210@ from Keep and places it into the local directory. Now that we have the file, we can compute the md5 hash of the complete file:
-
-<notextile>
-<pre><code>/scratch/<b>you</b>$ <span class="userinput">md5sum var-GS000016015-ASM.tsv.bz2</span>
-44b8ae3fde7a8a88d2f7ebd237625b4f var-GS000016015-ASM.tsv.bz2
-</code></pre>
-</notextile>
-
-h2. Accessing Collections
-
-There are a couple of other ways to access a collection. You may view the contents of a collection using @arv keep ls@:
-
-<notextile>
-<pre><code>/scratch/<b>you</b>$ <span class="userinput">arv keep ls c1bad4b39ca5a924e481008009d94e32+210</span>
-var-GS000016015-ASM.tsv.bz2
-/scratch/<b>you</b>$ <span class="userinput">arv keep ls -s c1bad4b39ca5a924e481008009d94e32+210</span>
-221887 var-GS000016015-ASM.tsv.bz2
-</code></pre>
-</notextile>
+Visit the Workbench *Dashboard*. Click on *Projects*<span class="caret"></span> dropdown menu in the top navigation menu, select your *Home* project. Your newly uploaded collection should appear near the top of the *Data collections* tab. The collection locator printed by @arv keep put@ will appear under the *name* column.
-* @-s@ prints file sizes in kilobytes
+To move the collection to a different project, check the box at the left of the collection row. Pull down the *Selection...*<span class="caret"></span> menu near the top of the page tab, and select *Move selected*. This will open a dialog box where you can select a destination project for the collection. Click a project, then finally the <span class="btn btn-sm btn-primary">Move</span> button.
-You may also access through the Arvados Workbench using a URI similar to this, where the last part of the path is the Keep locator:
+!{{ site.baseurl }}/images/workbench-move-selected.png!
-"https://workbench.{{ site.arvados_api_host }}/collections/c1bad4b39ca5a924e481008009d94e32+210":https://workbench.{{ site.arvados_api_host }}/collections/c1bad4b39ca5a924e481008009d94e32+210
+Click on the *<i class="fa fa-fw fa-archive"></i> Show* button next to the collection's listing on a project page to go to the Workbench page for your collection. On this page, you can see the collection's contents, download individual files, and set sharing options.
-You are now ready to proceed to the next tutorial, "running a crunch job.":tutorial-job1.html
+notextile. </div>
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