Questions tagged [copy]
Duplicating a thing to make two similar things.
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VMware NIC Teaming - How to gain more than 1Gbit/s copy speed between two VMs?
I have a question about VMware and NIC Teaming. Here is my easy test scenario. I have two VMs. VM1 and VM2. I want to copy 1 big file from VM1 to VM2 because I want to see that I can gain more copy ...
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Robocopy Delta Copy over network
We manage a client site that has a file & print server on-site and our intention is to move their files / data to a centralised server at our data center.
As the client has a very slow internet ...
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Windows secure file copy between servers
I have looked a bunch of questions on here somewhat related to what Im trying to do. Maybe windows has just not gotten on the security train yet.
Im not trying to use sftp, or WinSCP or SSH
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Is it possible to run the Cisco NX-OS 6.x copy command without the prompt to select a VRF?
I am currently working with a network scanning tool that logs into Cisco routers and runs commands on those routers. The problem I'm encountering has to do with what the copy command expects. The copy ...
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Active Directory User Copy within the same domain/forest
we have set up Active Directory Replication within the same domain/forest between two Windows Servers 2012. The Master Server, copies its contents to the secondary server. Unfortunately, for a number ...
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How to copy file preserving directory path in Linux?
I have Eclipse projects and ".project" file in them, the directory structure looks like 'myProject/.project'. I want to copy these '.project' files to another directory, but I want the enclosing ...
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Why robocopy with multi-treading copies faster
I have been using robocopy with the switch MT and really makes a difference in coping time.
I would like to know why the CPU treads act as a bottle-neck while copying files or what makes robocopy ...
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rsync -a and -L conflict?
I'm working on multiple servers and need to copy a large amount of data from one (production) to another (staging). The source server (production) has a NAS for shared files, that are accessed via ...
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What is the most efficient way to transfer files from AWS S3 to S3?
I have a large number of files stored in an AWS S3 bucket. I need to get those files to another S3 bucket owned by another user and in a different region. The files are stored in different locations ...
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Recursively copying hidden files - Linux
Is there an easy way to recursively copy all hidden files in a directory to another directory? I would like to back up just all the settings files in a home directory, not the normal files. I tried:
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Can't import using COPY in cassandra [protocol error]
I am trying to import 209GB csv file into cassandra. But, I am getting below error,
ErrorMessage code=000a [Protocol error] message="Cannot decode string as UTF8: '...
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Windows Server: file system limitation
We are developing an app for tablet which uploads and saves photos taken by the user. The problem we are suddenly meeting is that photos are not saved anymore in our directory in our Windows server ...
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Linux file copy with ETA?
I'm copying a large amount of files between disks. There's approximately 16 GB of data.
I'd like to see progress information, and even an estimated time of completion from the command line.
Any ...
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Backing up MySQL MyISAM databases by copying the physical folders
I have a Windows Server 2008 R2 machine and on it I have 2 MySQL MyISAM databases. These databases are quite large as they are over 20GB in combined size.
I update these databases once a week. (I ...
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Log backup clashes with log rotation
On my servers I have log rotation and a backup script which, besides all, backs up the entire log directory.
For log rotation I use logroatate on Linux and newsyslog is used on BSD. For log backup I ...
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Backup NAS to another NAS?
is there a way to backup / transfer a NAS (it's like a big harddrive with some access to a webinterface, but closed linux etc.... only two ethernet ports) to another one? or is the only way to connect ...
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Inotify/iwatch cannot see when more files created at the same time
I would need a script that can check files when they are getting uploaded/created on the server.
I wrote the script that checks, but I would like to make it run when a create event happens. I tried ...
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Very slow network copy from windows 7 to windows 2008 r2 server
I am having an issue where users have started to experience very slow transfer speeds both to and from my Dell server. When I say started, the only thing that has changed is that as of Sunday, we ...
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Backup old disk to external disk (new)
One of the 2 x 500GB drives on server is crashed can read but not write the data, which both are on Hardware RAID 0. So I connected an external 1TB new drive to backup the data and replace those 2 x ...
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Find the latest modified *.csv file and copy it into a different folder
My goal is to copy the latest file (based on modified date) in Windows to a different folder, and then rename the file to something different. My last line that is commented out was just a test to ...
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How to copy a file to common desktop (how to address common desktop) with Group Policy?
Using Group Policy Object > User > Preferences > Windows Settings > Files I can copy a file to user desktop using a target file name like this: %USERPROFILE%\Desktop\targetfile.txt.
Now I'm trying to ...
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Robocopy Overwite IDENTICAL files but Rename Similar Files
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1: We need to copy files from one folder into another folder - Folder A -> Folder B (while preserving subfolder structure)
2: Some of the files in Folder A are IDENTICAL to files in ...
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Linux to Linux, 10 TB transfer?
I've looked at all the previous similar questions, but the answers seemed to be all over the place and no one was moving a lot of data (100 GB is different from 10 TB).
I've got about 10&...
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Migrating bareos storage to another
We have a host A with bareos SD and the storage "backups". We want to migrate the data from host A to another storage (host B) temporarily.
We have to reinstall the host A for performance reasons.
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cp command prompts on overwrite even with -f
I am trying to copy all newer jpgs from one folder to another using the following command
cp -u --force /home/oldfolder/*.jpg /home/newfolder/
and I get the following promt:
cp: overwrite `/home/...
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dd vs. dd pipelined: which is better? [closed]
Here I read, in the comments, that a guy got more performance when used dd in pipeline for a copy. Like for example:
dd if=in | dd of=out
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dd if=in of=out
Is it really faster? Why?
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copy vmware vmdk files while vm is running
I need to copy some VMs from one datastore to another. I'm running ESX 3.5 U3, VMs are mostly Windows-based. I don't care about data integrity since it's only to test NetApps deduplication on the ...
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NetApp - Copy volume data to LUN on same filer
I'm trying to copy a volume /vol/Archive_chi to a LUN (LUN volume = /vol/ArchiveLUN_chi ; LUN = ArchiveLUN ; LUN PATH = /vol/ArchiveLUN_chi/ArchiveLUN).
I tried ndmpcopy /vol/Archive_chi /vol/...
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Slow network file copy on Windows 7
I wrote a program that uses xcopy to transfer files (usually between 1KB and 2MB) over our intranet. Usually, I am copying files from my host machine (Windows 7 x64) to a VMWare virtual machine ...
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Large File Copy Tool accross Flaky Connection
I am looking to copy some large files accross a flaky WAN connection. Is there a tool I can use which will auto resume when the network fall over briefly and let me manually resume if I have to fix it ...
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Copy file permissions, but not files in Unix
(From : https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15245144/copy-file-permissions-but-not-files, closed because off-topic)
I have two copies of the same directory tree. They almost have the same files in ...
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What is the most efficient way to push out/publish large sets files over a network?
Here's my scenario:
We have a need to push out a set of files (a 'workspace') from a source server to multiple destination servers. The files are kept under version control (SVN) so the first step is ...
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What is fastest way to copy a sparse file? What method results in the smallest file?
BACKGROUND: I'm copying a sparse qcow2 VM image that is 200GB in size, but has 16GB of allocated blocks. I've tried various methods to copy this sparse file within the same server and have some ...
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Copying files from local server to remote server using powershell
Apologies if this has already answered directly or indirectly in SF.
My requirement will be as follows:
Move a deployment folder that has got files and subdirectories to a remote sever.
Pass ...
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Active Directory Copy User and his password on another domain (and forest)
Is there a way (PowerShell would be nice) to copy a user (I need sAMAccountName) and his password, from one domainA (forestA) to domainB (forestB).
All Active Directory servers are on LAN and this is ...
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Apache: Copy all mp3 files from subfolders into another folder [closed]
I have a files folder with many subfolders (MediaWiki). Some of these contain mp3 files. I want them all copied into another folder (without subfolders).
How could I do that?
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How do I copy a SQL Server 2005 Database?
In my environment I need to copy a database from one server to another. Usually a QA machine to my local box.
I do not have access to QA machine. I can connect to the database, but not RDP into the ...
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Windows Server 2012R2 can't be pinged while copying big file (HP DL 380 G8)
I have an HP DL380 G8 Server with installed Windows Server 2012 R2 and newest Network drivers etc.
Another Person copied big files from an network share to the local hard disk. While copying the ...
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where can I learn the limitations of /LEV:n option of Robocopy command
Hey I am moving a file server to another datacenter. I use robocopy but I don't know the limits of the /LEV:nutility. Is this "n" can be 100 or something for some crazy admins? I searched but I didn't ...
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Bash shell copy files on the hidden directory [closed]
Need help with Unix script.
how do you use /bin/cp to copy files from /somepath/somedir/somewhere/.temp_folder
to /somepath/somedir/somewhere/
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/bin/cp -r somepath/somedir/somewhere/.[!.]* ...
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used mv file.sql /folder instead of mv file.sql folder/
Hello I made the mistake of using mv file.sql /destinationfolder instead of mv file.sql destinationfolder/- using su root. Now I can't find my sql file. is there a way to find it/recover it?
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Can I Copy a File Without hitting the RAM?
I suspect that I have a bad stick of RAM in a Linux development server. I'm trying to copy an 80Gb file off of the server to an external hard drive. CRC of the copied file does not match that of the ...
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Copy a file to multiple windows machines
How can one copy a file, from his windows computer, to a cluster of multiple windows machine, with one command?
I thought about using psexec, but that also tries to execute the file...
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How do you copy huge (millions) directory trees in Windows?
I have a NTFS partition that has a folder that holds over 5 million directories. Each directory contains more directories and then files.
I am moving to SSD and I need to copy all these data over to ...
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how to copy to shared folders from command-line in vmware-workstation?
I've been trying to access my shared folders from the command line in my virtual machine with no luck. I've stumbled across a couple of references to using net use to establish a virtual drive, but i ...
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Is file copying limited by free space on C drive?
I have some Windows Server 2003 and 2008 boxes that have files I need to copy that are in the range of 20 GB to 80 GB ranges. The 20 GB files transfer without a problem from one server to another ...
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What's the best program to use for copying 12TB of data onto 4 3TB hard drives on linux?
I have a 12TB enclosure that's filled with data (ext3). I'd like to make a copy of it, spanned across individual 3TB disks, each of which is readable on its own (no RAID or bonding). Ideally, I'd like ...
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LVM - Moving data between Logical Volumes within the same Physical Volume
I will have two logical volumes that exist within one physical volume (RedHat Linux LVM).
I will also be moving a lot of data between these LVs.
My question is: Does the data get moved on the actual ...
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How to run multiple commands with psexec? [duplicate]
I need to run a command to uninstall forefront on some of our workstations and am having a bit of trouble formatting the command.
Here's what needs to happen (in multiple commands)
xcopy \\...
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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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