It is possible to get the PDBFINDER file on your own machine, in-house so to speak. We allow you to do this with the 'rsync' command (that is UNIX/Linux, I don't know the equivalent command in other operating systems, so don't mail me for that).
Getting the PDBFINDER files local is a two-step process:
It seems a bit stupid to have rsync access to a database that consists of just one file. However, we can imagine that you want several of our structure related facilities weekly updated on your own computer. In that case rsync is an easier method than FTP...
To start your in-house database, make a directory and name it pdbfinder, or PDBFINDER, or myPDBFINDER, or something else that is logical. In that directory type 'pwd' (without the quotes...). The pwd command returns the path which I will call path_to_pdbfinder. Now type the command (obviously replacing path_to_pdbfinder with the real path that you got from pwd):
rsync -avz rsync://rsync.cmbi.ru.nl/pdbfinder/ /path_to_pdbfinder/ |
If, at a later stage, for example weekly, you want to make an update of your in-house PDBFINDER file issue the command:
rsync -avz --delete rsync://rsync.cmbi.ru.nl/pdbfinder/ /path_to_pdbfinder/ |
This latter command you can, for example, have executed from a crontab job.
Please do these rsync jobs between midnight and 8.00 am Dutch time.