Actually, I found a way!  I can mount the remote filesystem using sshfs.  

On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 12:36 PM, Nate Coraor <nate@bx.psu.edu> wrote:
On Jan 4, 2012, at 2:52 PM, Ryan wrote:

> I have a cluster (cluster A) set up with Galaxy.  Our sequencing data gets mapped to hg19, then the resulting BAM files are placed on a SAN connected to a different cluster (cluster B) that cluster A does not have NFS access to.  We cannot install an FTP server on cluster B either.  The only way to get data from cluster B to cluster A is to use scp.  Is there a way to set up a Data Library in Galaxy on cluster A that refers to non-local data and transfers the data from cluster B when needed?  Or is it possible to have a Galaxy instance on cluster B share data with a Galaxy instance on cluster A?

Hi Ryan,

There is not presently a way to temporarily pull data from other filesystems using scp or share data without a common filesystem.  You'll have to copy the data to cluster A and then load it into a library there.

--nate

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