From/To Sciebo (or other WebDAV-based services)

The Sciebo Hochschulcloud NRW (https://hochschulcloud.nrw/) is a non-commercial cloud storage by universities for universities, where you can securely store your research, study, and teaching data.

More information on features can be found at https://hochschulcloud.nrw/en/#features.

To get more than the default storage amount, you can:

• get a project box

• as an employee increase your personal storage by 500 GB

We explain here how to upload and download to/from Sciebo directly from our HPC systems.

The following instructions not only work for Sciebo but for any other WebDAV-based service like OwnCloud, Nextcloud, or others.

One-time configuration:

1. Create an account and make sure that you know your username and password.

2. Log in to a frontend node of our HPC systems.

3. Load the rclone module

   module load tools/rclone/1.66.0

4. Configure rclone for Sciebo by running:

   1. URL: URL of the service

      • For Sciebo: For a member of Paderborn University this is https://uni-paderborn.sciebo.de/remote.php/webdav/. For members of other universities in NRW use the domain name that you use in the browser and append /remote.php/webdav/, i.e., for RWTH Aachen https://rwth-aachen.sciebo.de/remote.php/webdav/

      • For other services like Nextcloud: Use example.com/nextcloud/remote.php/dav/files/USERNAME/ and see https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/latest/user_manual/en/files/access_webdav.html

   2. USERNAME:

      • For Sciebo: Use the Mail address that you used to login to sciebo.

      • For other services like Nextcloud: Use your user name that you use for logging into the service.

        rclone config create sciebo webdav url [URL] vendor owncloud user [USERNAME] --all

        You will be asked for your password, which will be stored encrypted.

5. You now have a remote named sciebo configured. With rclone listremotes you will see it.

Usage:

• Copy data from Sciebo to the HPC system: Run on a frontend node of the HPC system:

  rclone copy -P [LOCAL_DIRECTORY] sciebo:[DIRECTORY_IN_SCIEBO]

  • -P: show progress

• Copy data from the HPC System to Sciebo:

• More rclone commands can be found at https://rclone.org/commands/