The most complete and up-to-date instructions for setting up a mirror can be found in our source tree. You may choose to set up either a full mirror browser or a partial one, depending on your disk space and needs. Additionally, these blog posts may be helpful with setting up a mirror site on CentOS and Ubuntu.

A license is required for commercial download and/or installation of the Genome Browser binaries and source code. No license is needed for academic, nonprofit, and personal use. To purchase a license, see our License Instructions.

The amount of data available in the Genome Browser is growing constantly. To determine the size of any of the download directories mentioned in these instructions, use the rsync "-n" option on the directory prior to actually transferring the data. For instance, to find the size of the /gbdb directory, run:

rsync -navP rsync://hgdownload.cse.ucsc.edu/gbdb/

-n, --dry-run         show what would have been transferred
-a, --archive         archive mode, equivalent to -rlptgoD
-v, --verbose         increase verbosity
-P                    equivalent to --partial --progress

Mirror site questions may be directed to the mailing list genome-mirror@soe.ucsc.edu. Messages sent to this address will be posted to the moderated genome-mirror mailing list, which is archived on a public Web-accessible pipermail archive. This archive may be indexed by non-UCSC sites such as Google.

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