How to download using Windows

Requirements

You will be provided an authentication key file via a secure transfer system called 1Password. You will also be informed of your Service Account Email. This will take the format of <inst>-service-account@sms-export-prod-b6e4d536.iam.gserviceaccount.com where <inst> is your institute or department.

You will also be give a bucket name which contains your files.

Steps

1. Download the authentication file and save it to a folder.
2. Download the Google Cloud Utilities for Windows.

3. Activate the service account.

   gcloud auth activate-service-account [Service Account] --key-file=[Key file location] --project=sms-export-prod-b6e4d536
   

4. Use the gsutils tool to download files. The following command will download all the files in your bucket to the directory c:\downloads. The download directory could be a file share or other remote storage such as IFS.

   gsutil rsync -r gs://[bucketname] c:\downloads
   

Note

Using the rsync command rather than cp will allow you to a resume a download job, rather than having to restart from scratch.