[Bioclusters] download blast db with rsync in uncompressed format

[Guy Coates]

> The problem is this one :
> in fact rsync can't be used at its "best performances" because the databases
> are already compressed. Thus the transmitted data to update a local version
> is very high and could be much lower if using rsync with uncompressed
> databases (by usind the rsync switch to compress data that is being
> transmitted).

One thing to be aware of is that many versions of rsync silently corrupt
files when doing incremental updates on Large Files (>2Gig), or when the
copy is being done cross architecture system.

I'd  checksum your rsynced files with freshly downloaded ones until you
are happy it all works.

Cheers,

Guy Coates

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