Updating data from UCSC

Question

[Ron]

Hey guys,

I want to have an idea as to how to update the data regularly from the source, if its stored locally in your server or local machine.Lets say MySQL database.e.g. I would like to update UCSC tables which I also want to store locally and regularly update them.

Source: It will be a web-service data repository.

Data sets: An online data repository has a number of data sets.

I want to know which data sets have been updated and what changes have been made.I have done queries in MySQL, but not done anything like this. Any suggestions on how to do this,in Python or Shell?

Best,
Ron

Answer 1

[Pierre Lindenbaum]

See Downloading Data: Please Use Rsync https://genome.ucsc.edu/goldenPath/help/ftp.html and "Rsync only changed files" in http://superuser.com/questions/254530/rsync-only-changed-files