We'd recommend you not ever stop/start through the aws console -- this is basically guaranteed to cause problems with your instance. Always use the cloudman interface (on your ec2 instance -- http://<ec2_instance>/cloud) to terminate, and then use usegalaxy.org/cloudlaunch to restart it.
The problem is that if use usegalaxy.org/cloudlaunch to restart galaxy, it will launch to main.g2.bx.psu.edu, where I have no control on the data security and running queues. Meanwhile, the correspondingly initiated ec2 instance is brand new and has no previous work records to track with. In this is the case, it would be great that if galaxy cloudman can be designed more aws instance friendly in the future. Thank you, Kathryn -----Original Message----- From: Dannon Baker [mailto:dannonbaker@me.com] Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2012 2:43 PM To: Sun, Wenping [USA] Cc: galaxy-user@bx.psu.edu Subject: Re: [External] Re: [galaxy-user] galaxy cloudman login and aws instance On Dec 20, 2012, at 2:33 PM, "Sun, Wenping [USA]" <Sun_Wenping@bah.com> wrote:
Thank you very much for the information.
For the last part of using ec2 instances at aws, is there an option that I can control galaxy's operation at aws site? This way I can start/stop the instance when I need. I am not willing to terminate the instance since everything will be lost.
We'd recommend you not ever stop/start through the aws console -- this is basically guaranteed to cause problems with your instance. Always use the cloudman interface (on your ec2 instance -- http://<ec2_instance>/cloud) to terminate, and then use usegalaxy.org/cloudlaunch to restart it.
Meantime, I am wondering the data structure on ec2 galaxy instance. Where is the location for the data uploaded from the galaxy gui? If I ssh the Ubuntu, where is the data directory for holding the work?
Everything will be in /mnt/galaxyData/files (which is symlinked to /mnt/galaxyTools/galaxy-central/database/files). Note that the filenames will be by id (like files/000/dataset_001.dat is dataset id 1, etc), and not particularly accessible in this format without a little extra legwork.