I am using the cluster for the first time now, and I would like to save the data on from the cluster to my own computer. I know there should be a command that synchronizes the cluster folder with a folder on my computer. The command uses ‘rsync’, though it does not seem to work because it cannot detect the folder. It might be because I do not know how to correctly write the path to the directory…
Does anyone have any advise on saving data, and how the directories are correctly called?
rsync should work. As far as I’m aware, rsync will understand both the absolute path (so /home/<username>/directory/to/copy) as well the path relative to your home folder, so just directory/to/copy. Note that the relative path doesn’t start with a /. Another thing that can go wrong is all the extra flags that one needs to pass to rsync. At the very least you want to pass -r for copying an entire directory.
For a specific example, if I have a directory /home/aakhmerov/test, then I copy it to my computer as rsync -r hpc05:test . (here hpc05 is the ssh alias I have created for the cluster).