Reliable File Transfer (RFT)
for Users
William (Bill) E. Allcock
Argonne National Laboratory
4th – 5th April 2005
Incredibly Simple Client
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Simply pass it a file with options at the top,
and then source / destination URL pairs.
rft –f my.xfr
Other options
-h host (defaults to localhost)
 -r port (defaults to 8080)
 -l lifetime (default 60 minutes)
 -m security (msg, conv, trans (default))
 -p protection (sig, enc (default))
 -z authorization (self, host (default))
 -file file to write epr to
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format of the input file
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#true=binary false=ascii
true
#Block size in bytes
16000
#TCP Buffer size in bytes
16000
#Notpt (No thirdPartyTransfer)
false
#Number of parallel streams
1
Other details
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If you are using a 3.2.x version of RFT and
GridFTP you can specify a directory by
having a trailing slash on the URL and RFT
will move the entire directory.
Deleting Files
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rft-delete –f filename
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same options
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Different file format
# Subject name (defaults to host subject)
/DC=org/DC=doegrids/OU=Services/CN=host/gridftp.mcs.anl.gov
gsiftp://gridftp.mcs.anl.gov/tmp/deleteme