Transferring data to and from the Research Data Store

The Research Computing Service’s RDS is a secure and scalable space for all your research data.

There are three main ways to transfer data to and from the RDS, all of which work with macOS, Windows and Linux:

  1. By mounting the RDS as a remote drive. This is the simplest approach. We have a series of videos under Accessing RDS Project Allocations on our Research Data Store page. On macOS and Linux the address is smb://rds.imperial.ac.uk/RDS and on Windows 10 it’s \\rds.imperial.ac.uk\RDS. You’ll need to be connected to the VPN.
  2. Via the compute service using SSH. This means that you can use scp or sftp from your local machine, via the command line or any graphical tool that supports these protocols. Again, this requires a connection to the VPN.
  3. Using Globus. This is suitable for large volumes of data and securely sharing data with other users. It can be used without a connection to the VPN.

Further resources