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How create ghost images and copy to many drives [closed]
I am looking for the cleanest and most reliable solution to create ghost images of a windows 7 based machine and copy these images to multiple hard drives.
I am looking for the software needed to ...
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Moving Large Files Between Servers
I NEVER have to do this. But I know its a common problem. Yet, I'm not sure how to tackle it. I have a server (Windows Server 2008) that I access remotely. This server is NOT on the same domain as my ...
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Best way to transfer files from one server to another using a third server
Here's the scenario:
ssh +------------+
+---->| Server 2 |
+------------+ | +------------+
| Server 1 +---+
+------------+ | +------------+
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copy file: Not a directory
I have a NAS mount, and I can copy file to this,
but I can't copy files similar to this
cp /home2/user/WRF/WRFV3/run/*_2 . -v
`/home2/user/WRF/WRFV3/run/wrfout_d04_2007-11-21_00:00:00_2' -> ...
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rsync not working - want to copy only certain subdirectories and files
Hi let's say I have a directory like this:
/
my_work
/dir1
keepdir1.ddd
keepdir2.ddd
file.cfg
(lots ...
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Copying Centos to another server
I just did a fresh install of centos and spent ages adding all my standard libraries. Is there a way I can easily take a copy of this build and deploy to another new server?
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Copying huge files between two remote machines - Efficiently
I have a shell script which keeps on copying huge files (2 GB to 5 GB) between remote systems.
Key based authentication is used with agent-forwarding and everything works.
For ex: Say the shell script ...
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Clone Flash Drive in Linux using DD
dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb
I want to create a clone a bootable USB stick.
lets say sda is 2GB
sdb is 32GB.
The above line will create a replica but the usable size will be 2GB. How can I use the ...
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Windows secure file copy
I'd like to setup a secure file copy to some of my servers. A particular login (not Active Directory or Windows login) would have access to a starting point (e.g. c:\a\www) and then that login would ...
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Copy a range of files in command line (ZSH/BASH)
I have a list of files with consecutive numbers as suffixes. I would like to copy only a range of these files. How can I specify a range as part of my cp command.
$ls
P1080272.JPG* P1080273.JPG* ...
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Linux / mysql: is it safe to copy mysql db files with cp command from one db to another?
Most guides recommend mysqldump and simple SQL for copying one table to anoter db. How about linux shell cp? Can I just simply do
cp /db1/mytable.frm /db2/mytable.frm
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Database not browsable during COPY on PostgreSQL
When using COPY to restore a CSV file, phppgadmin shows that the real database size(4GB) but when I choose to browse the table it shows Estimated row count to 0. I did a VACUUM ANALYZE. simple SELECT ...
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ssl handshake failure with COPY on PostgreSQL
I'm restoring a CSV file to database with COPY command. The csv file is bziped. I use this command:
bunzip2 -c -d online-20110923000001.csv.bz2 | psql -U user -h 127.0.0.1 -d testdb -c "COPY data ...
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Copy files from SVN server to external server via FTP
Currently I have about 5 servers, one I would like to use as a SVN server for development reasons, but I want it to be able to update the external server such as copying committed files to the ...
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Is it possible to copy/clone a Vmware Workstation virtual machine along with virtual machine snapshots?
is it possible to copy/clone a Vmware Workstation virtual machine along with virtual machine snapshots?
I've tested:
cloning the virtual machine - I can only pick one snapshot and new VM will be ...
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Microsoft Terminal Server clipboard corruption
I've got a client running Terminal Server 2008 R2, connecting from Windows XP terminal services client (not sure of the local RDP version, I think they've got all their service packs though) and ...
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Fastest way to copy folder that contains many files via SSH
What is the best way to duplicate files on server via ssh?
In my case: I'm talking about duplicating magento shop. (15000 files ~ 50MB)
cp -a source destination
Is taking hours... (in my case ...
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USB stick unmounts itself, becomes unavailable ?!
On Centos 6, I am trying to copy some files from a Fat32 stick.
I do a "fdisk -l" then take that name and mount it with this command:
mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/usb
I see the files there (I didnt count ...
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Copy whole files only
Is there any way to copy directory from one filesystem to another but remove the partial file in case we run out of disk space on target filesystem?
I searched cp and rsync manuals but did not find ...
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Why does a CP command on linux consume CPU?
I just run a copy command for two large directories with a small number of huge files and I see my cp process is consuming around half a core in top:
51116 root 20 0 110m 876 688 D 43.9 ...
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Rsync : copying over timestamps only
Currently I have two directories A/ and B/ which are identical in every respect, with the exception of the timestamps. Therefore if I run the command :
rsync --dry-run -crvv A/ B/
then all files ...
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How to use rsync to copy images and dir
I am in the middle of merging 2 directories into 1.
/competitions/1
/competitions/2
/competitions/3
/gallery/1
/gallery/2
/gallery/3
I want to copy all the files in /competitions to /gallery and ...
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How to copy a file with filename “+” and rename it?
I have a file named +13x18_DSC_0800.JPG on a linux server (Please don't ask me how it got there as I have no idea how it got there). I wish to rename it to 13x18_DSC_0800.JPG. However I have not ...
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Powershell Copy-Item fails silently
I have a PowerShell 2.0 script running on Windows Server 2008 R2 64bit that copies some Hyper-V .vhd files to another server as a 'backup solution'.
The script gets a list of the .vhd's to copy then ...
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External Usb driver gets dismounted automatically when copying files
I am using Trascend 320 GB external hard drive for two years. Now, when I tried to copy files to the device, it gets dismounted automatically. I need to plugout and plugin to get the drive show in My ...
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Best Practice: Copy a file at a certain time?
I've been wrangled into the world of Windows system administration. Coming from a Linux sysadmin background, I am looking for the best way to copy a file to a directory at a specific time. (Change ...
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How to stop users from running CPU heavy programs on a server?
I have a 24 core server, which users connect to through SSH.
It is not meant for them to run CPU heavy programs like MATLAB, R or their own scripts that perform simulations or things like that.
Are ...
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Raw copy with sector precision on windows
Is there some program for windows that is able to do what dd does in linux out of the box? I need to copy from a file to a physical disk in raw mode where I need to define offsets for input and ...
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Which is the most reliable means of copying archives using binary deltas across Windows SMB shares?
I've been searching for the quickest way to copy some WAR and JAR files for huge software deployments between Windows systems. Clearly, multithreaded robocopy or any rsync protocol implementation will ...
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search files based on text file containing list of files
I have a text file containing file names only (it does not contain their paths). I need to find these files which may lie in any of the subfolders and then copy or move them to other location. To find ...
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Site name questions [closed]
I'm creating a website on German cars. No issues with it, since it's basically a PHP site, and let's say for the sake of argument, there are no server issues.
However, I plan to call it "autohaus" ...
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Copying File into hidden folder
I'm attempting to copy a URL link for our companies library system onto all users workstation desktops. I've tried creating a shortcut via Group policy:
User Configuration > Preferences > Windows ...
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Why does the .NET Folder.CopyHere Method not allow dialog suppression for .ZIP files when run within a SQL Server Agent PowerShell job step?
I am using PowerShell in a SQL Server Agent job step to automate the extraction of .ZIP file contents to a directory.
Based upon highest-voted answer on this question: How to zip/unzip files in ...
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How to copy only a specific amount of file?
I have a directory with almost 100,000 files inside. I want to copy 20,000 of them to another directory. Is it possible to do this with the cp command or is there any other way?
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Access denied when trying to copy files using C# on Windows Server 2008
I have my own Windows Server 2008 box that contains many web sites that all contain the same code base. I've written some code in an MVC 3 Administrator application which works locally that can ...
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fastest way to mirror a directory containing millions of small files
I need to copy a 700G ISCSI mounted folder to a folder on the local hard drive, while maintaining the existing permissions and ownership. The data in the folder consists of about a million mostly ...
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Error copying EXE and DLL files over VPN
I get a copy error when I try to copy DLL and/or EXE files from my local computer, over to our VPN site.
this is an important thing as we are using "Publish" from our local system/developer computers ...
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ssh tar copying - missing files
On copying directory "home" (from remote machine) to local machine using the following command:
ssh root@remote.machine 'tar -cz -C /home/*' | tar -zxv
The number of files after the transaction ...
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copy and rename files
Here are my access logs those I want to backup.
/var/log/httpd/access_log
/var/log/httpd/access_log.1
/var/log/httpd/access_log.2
/var/log/httpd/access_log.3
...
I want to copy all these files but ...
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Batch file problems
I have created a batch file to copy and zip up an entire drive of data on my server. I have selected the D:\ drive to be copied and zipped. However, I have one problem. When I run the batch file, only ...
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Copy a SQL Server DB to an external HD
I found a lot of similar questions in the archives, but none quite answered this.
I need to copy a database from one server (SQL Server 2008) to another. Each server is in its own system, and no ...
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ntfsclone reports “Can't read sector at 470585344, lost data”. How can I determine what file that is?
I used ntfsclone from ubuntu to copy a bad windows hard drive to a new one using:
sudo ntfsclone --rescue -f --overwrite /dev/sda1 /dev/sdb1
which produces the following:
WARNING: Can't read ...
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Linux Server user copy
Is there a way to copy user list (with data and passwords) from one server to another.
We have two servers and one of those is new. I need to create same users (that exist in /home/) and set same ...
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Copy data to a directory
I use the following command to copy data and it is working as expected.
cp -pr --reply=yes /db-nfs/mysql3/*
/db-nfs/mysql5/
1) Is there a better way?
2) I want to copy the same data to ...
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How to effeciently copy large amount of data dvd's to disk? [closed]
Anyone have an ideas on how to copy many dvd's to disk effeciently? Currently we are inserting each disk individually and copying them then un-mounting them, inserting the next disk and so on. ...
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How can I reduce resource useage when copying a large file?
I need to move a large corrupt MySQL table (~40GB) onto a seperate server in order to repair it. (When trying to repair on my production server, it quickly killed the server).
In order to do this, I ...
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How to make a byte for byte copy of a drive? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Using DD for disk cloning
What's the easiest and most reliable, risk free, way of making an exact copy of a hard drive?
We have a drive that's been messed up by someone ...
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How to upload (and measure) SFTP in parallel?
I've got a remote server that I can access via SFTP. (Not FTP over SSL. SFTP.)
Periodically, I need to push a few thousand new files to that machine.
How can I:
Upload upload these in parallel?
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Windows Server hard disk writes slow down after about one minute
I'm copying a 130 GB SQL Server backup to my Windows 2008 server, and to start with I get write speeds around 80 GB/sec, which is about what I'd expect. However, after the initial burst about a ...
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Windows copy command process info
Is there any specific package for copy command which shows the process of being copied.
In windows while using copy from command line I could not see the process but the blinking cursor and I'm ...
