google-cloud-sdk

Installed in $six_ALL_CCFRWORK/lib/google-cloud-sdk following the linux installation instructions here.

To activate add to your ~/.bashrc:

if [ -f '/gpfsssd/worksf/projects/rech/six/commun/lib/google-cloud-sdk/path.bash.inc' ]; then . '/gpfsssd/worksf/projects/rech/six/commun/lib/google-cloud-sdk/path.bash.inc'; fi
if [ -f '/gpfsssd/worksf/projects/rech/six/commun/lib/google-cloud-sdk/completion.bash.inc' ]; then . '/gpfsssd/worksf/projects/rech/six/commun/lib/google-cloud-sdk/completion.bash.inc'; fi

and restart bash.

Downloading from the `bigscience` bucket

Go to the location to download, e.g.: https://console.cloud.google.com/storage/browser/bigscience/mc4_preprocessing?pageState=(%22StorageObjectListTable%22:(%22f%22:%22%255B%255D%22))

Select dirs to download and click on 'Downloadand it will give instructions to download all the dirs usinggsutil`, e.g.:

gsutil -m cp -r \
  "gs://bigscience/mc4_sampled_raw/am/" \
  "gs://bigscience/mc4_sampled_raw/ar/" \
  .

To debug add -d.

To download a single file, go to the file's page, e.g.:

https://console.cloud.google.com/storage/browser/_details/bigscience/mc4_preprocessing/en/train_text_document_1.bin

and it'll have the gsutil URI entry, in this case: gs://bigscience/mc4_preprocessing/en/train_text_document_1.bin which you then feed to gsutil:

gsutil -m cp "gs://bigscience/mc4_preprocessing/en/train_text_document_1.bin" .

rsync might be a better way to sync files when they are large and the client keeps on crashing, example:

gsutil -m rsync -r "gs://bigscience/mc4_preprocessing" mc4_preprocessing

note that gsutil keeps track of what it failed to do and tries to re-do it even if you manually fetched a large file and inserted it into the right location, it'll ignore its appearance, will delete it and will attempt to fetch it a new. Not really great rsync feature, if you're used to the normal rsync(1) tool.

moving multiple folders

gsutil mv is supposed to support globbing, but it doesn't. so here is a poor man's workaround:

e.g. to move "gs://bigscience-backups/tr1-13B/global_step*" to "gs://bigscience-backups/tr1-13B/checkpoints-bak/"

for x in `gsutil ls "gs://bigscience-backups/tr1-13B"`; do y=$(basename -- "$x");echo gsutil mv ${x} gs://bigscience-backups/tr1-13B/checkpoints-bak/${y}; done > cmd

edit cmd to your liking to remove any folders that shouldn't be moved. surely can be further improved to filter out the wanted pattern, but the principle is clear.

google-cloud-sdk

Downloading from the bigscience bucket

moving multiple folders

Downloading from the `bigscience` bucket