Is anybody experiencing problems downloading from the SRA?

Question

[pomodoro_sinensis]

I have been getting the following message throughout the whole day today whenever I try to wget anything from the SRA:

    % wget ftp://ftp.sra.ebi.ac.uk/vol1/run/SRR638/SRR6389864/possorted_genome_bam.bam
--2020-11-18 16:17:10--  ftp://ftp.sra.ebi.ac.uk/vol1/run/SRR638/SRR6389864/possorted_genome_bam.bam
           => ‘possorted_genome_bam.bam’
Resolving ftp.sra.ebi.ac.uk... 193.62.197.74
Connecting to ftp.sra.ebi.ac.uk|193.62.197.74|:21... connected.
Logging in as anonymous ... Logged in!
==> SYST ... done.    ==> PWD ... done.
==> TYPE I ... done.  ==> CWD (1) /vol1/run/SRR638/SRR6389864 ... done.
==> SIZE possorted_genome_bam.bam ... done.

==> PASV ... done.    ==> RETR possorted_genome_bam.bam ... done.

possorted_genome_bam     [ <=>                 ]       0  --.-KB/s    in 0s      

2020-11-18 16:17:12 (0.00 B/s) - ‘possorted_genome_bam.bam’ saved [0]

I have tried with links that I have used before and know that work, but I get the same error messages. Here are two examples of links so that you can try to reproduce my issue:

ftp://ftp.sra.ebi.ac.uk/vol1/run/SRR638/SRR6389864/possorted_genome_bam.bam

ftp://ftp.sra.ebi.ac.uk/vol1/fastq/SRR548/005/SRR5481335/SRR5481335_1.fastq.gz

Am I having issues in my machine or are the servers for the SRA misbehaving today?

Thanks a lot!!

[DareDevil]

It may the problem with your network: Downloading in the PC

wget ftp://ftp.sra.ebi.ac.uk/vol1/fastq/SRR548/005/SRR5481335/SRR5481335_1.fastq.gz
--2021-01-20 10:21:16--  ftp://ftp.sra.ebi.ac.uk/vol1/fastq/SRR548/005/SRR5481335/SRR5481335_1.fastq.gz
           => ‘SRR5481335_1.fastq.gz’
Resolving ftp.sra.ebi.ac.uk ftp.sra.ebi.ac.uk)... 193.62.197.74
Connecting to ftp.sra.ebi.ac.uk ftp.sra.ebi.ac.uk)|193.62.197.74|:21... connected.
Logging in as anonymous ... Logged in!
==> SYST ... done.    ==> PWD ... done.
==> TYPE I ... done.  ==> CWD (1) /vol1/fastq/SRR548/005/SRR5481335 ... done.
==> SIZE SRR5481335_1.fastq.gz ... 1326667116
==> PASV ... done.    ==> RETR SRR5481335_1.fastq.gz ... done.
Length: 1326667116 (1.2G) (unauthoritative)

SRR5481335_1.fastq.   0%[                    ]  11.10M   747KB/s    eta 19m 19s

[GenoMax]

If I click on the links they seem to be working.

[pomodoro_sinensis]

This is so strange. They don't work in my computer. And when I try to download it from an external server (using Google colab) it doesn't work either... Could you try wget and see if you get anything different?

[pomodoro_sinensis]

I just checked in two other computers. It looks like they download but they are all empty files... I guess there might be a server issue...

[Tima z]

I also have the same problem, does it mean that this is a problem from ebi server?

[Kevin Blighe]

Yes, I have had intermittent problems for the past 2 weeks when downloading via wget onto a machine in Germany.

For example:

--2020-12-21 15:10:27--  ftp://ftp.sra.ebi.ac.uk/vol1/run/SRR124/SRR12492134/day30_Tom_neg.bam
Proxy request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not found
2020-12-21 15:10:27 ERROR 404: Not found.

[svp]

It looks like the data is available in link ftp://ftp.sra.ebi.ac.uk/vol1/run/SRR124/SRR12492134/ when we use browser