Hi Matt, Thanks so much for your help. I was able to successfully get the file from your link. I did notice there was not "Content-Length" header in the original download response. Maybe that has something to do with the wget trouble.

Subject: Re: [API-users] Downloading large numbers of datasets Message-ID: 14c80817-da32-23c4-e1ee-eded21481079@gbif.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252"; Format="flowed"

Hi Clint,

You're first to report a problem, though trying to download the file (64-bit Linux, wget) within the GBIF network also failed for me.

I've copied it with a different method to here: http://download.gbif.org/2016/12/0039949-160910150852091.zip -- on a plain Apache server, so wget's "--continue" option should work if necessary.

The MD5 checksum is e976523c9e6c7ec0cd9d3cb30030020b and the size is exactly 43,184,530,448 bytes.

If downloading that doesn't work, I could split the file into chunks. We'll also look into why the download failed [1].

Cheers,

Matt Blissett

[1] http://dev.gbif.org/issues/browse/POR-3199

On 07/12/2016 14.53, Coggins, Clint wrote:

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I'm trying to download all the occurrence data with COUNTRY=US

http://www.gbif.org/occurrence/search?COUNTRY=US

I've requested a download file, which is here http://www.gbif.org/occurrence/download/0039949-160910150852091

However, I've been having a lot of trouble getting the download to complete since it is so large(43.2GB). I've tried various browsers and also wget on both Linux and Mac. It typically fails with a network error in the browser. wget displayed strange behavior in that it claimed the download was successful after downloading 4.1GB. This was on 64 bit linux with ext4, so I don't think there was a filesystem limitation.

Any ideas on how to download this data? Does it make sense to write a script to use the API to request the datasets one by one to split it up?

Thanks for any help

-- Clint Coggins