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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 output....
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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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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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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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ssh tar copying - missing files

On copying directory "home" (from remote machine) to local machine using the following command: ssh [email protected] '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 sector ...
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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 /db-nfs/...
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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. Ideally,...
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How can I reduce resource usage when copying a large file?

I need to move a large file (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 ...
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How to make a byte for byte copy of a drive? [duplicate]

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 re-...
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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 ...
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RDP Clipboard File transfer in Windows Server 2008 R2

I don't like the "new" Feature in Windows 2008 R2. We had some Terminal servers used by a lot of users. If the User enables the Clipboard function in their Remote Desktop Connection, the ...
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how to copy text from xterm based terminal to some other gui application on linux

i use uxrvt ( for those who dont know, its terminal emulator based on xterm). i know its easy to copy/paste stuff from terminal to itself is a trivial thing. it can be done by mouse left click to ...
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copy files created in one folder to multiple other folders on linux

I'm looking for a way to copy photos that are uploaded to one folder to many other folders and visa versa. Example: a photo is uploaded to folder 1, it is then copied to folders 2-5. And if a photo ...
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Batch change modified/created dates?

I recently bought new hard drives for my NAS. This means that I'm copying all the data off the NAS, upgrading it, and then moving the data back. I've gotten as far as copying the data from the NAS, ...
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Best way to copy large amount of data between partitions

I'm looking to transfer data across 2 lv of an HP-UX server. I have a couple of those transfers to do, some of which are mostly binary (Oracle tablespace...) and some others are more text files (logs.....
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cp: command not found

I have an shell file with the following contents: #!/bin/sh echo "enter code hereecho "Enter the site name, followed by [ENTER]:" read site_name mkdir -p /usr/local/xpay4$site_name cp /usr/local/...
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how i can send and get file by using sftp?

how i can send and get file by using sftp ????
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sftp remotly copy in bash file "unix"?

how i can write bash file to copy files from unix box to windows "remotly" box by sftp command ???
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How do I copy a directory tree but not the files in Linux?

I want to copy about 200 directories & subdirectories from one location to another but I don't want to copy the thousands of files within those directories. I am on Linux. Note: I don't have ...
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how i can make batch file in windows read the output of somthing from unix bash file?

i want to make incremntal backup for repository by the following command :- svnadmin dump myrepos --revision 1001:2000 --incremental > dumpfile2 but i want to copy the output on windows box as ...
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Are there alternatives to the "Copy Database" option on MSSQL Server Management Studio?

The reason I ask this is because it doesn't work. I haven't tried taking it offline yet because it is almost always in use. In the worst case I will attempt to take it offline and use "Copy Database" ...
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SUDO permissions, file copy/chmod question?

So, I'm logged in as sudo, and seeing this... why? $ cd /var/www/drupal-6.19/sites/default $ ls default.settings.php $ sudo -v [sudo] password for sudo_username: $ cp default.settings.php settings....
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RCP (Remote Copy Protocol) in Ubuntu

On our Cisco-Routers we enabled RCP. Now we want copy all the running-config with our Ubuntu Server but I can't find any suitable command. I tried copying with rsync and cp but that did not work. ...
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FTP-like folder with mass copy protection

This is something I'm trying to find a solution to for a couple of weeks now. I have a folder on my server which I'd like to share with my partners overseas but I have a very specific demands from it ...
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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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How do I copy one 500GB file from win2003 to lan/usb without impacting the source server?

I have to copy (periodically) a MSSQL backup file large 500 GB to another pc (windows or linux) within lan. The normal copy (or xcopy, robocoy, teracopy) command to a network share (or external usb ...
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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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Recommended Win2k8 Server software to fix my RAID-0 issue

I'm running an Asus P6T V2 Deluxe. It has six SATA ports and supports onboard RAID. I am using two of those ports for a RAID0 array of 1.5TB Seagate drives using the onboard RAID controller. One of ...
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Copying files from OSX to samba, force create mode not working

I have a problem whereby I have set up a samba share with these parrameters: [Design] path = "/sec/projects/design" writeable = yes browsable = yes valid users = @design force group = design force ...
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Bash Script to copy file across network unattended?

I would like to create a script that would execute a series of scp commands. This would pull a specific set of files from another computer on the network to a specific directory on the local machine. ...
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Copying over 600GB from one windows 2003 ESX VM to another

I need to copy 650GB-isg from one VM to another both server instances are on a VMware ESX cluster and both run Windows server 2003 x86 (on the same LAN). One server is our file server and the other is ...
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Copying windows shared folder files on unix into Unix

I am on a unix box with Sun OS 5.0. Now I have a shared folder on a Windows server on my LAN. I have some files on Windows to be copied into my unix by running a script on unix itself. So windows box ...
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Tool for Copying windows shared folder files on unix into Unix

I am on a unix box with Sun OS 5.0. Now I have a shared folder on a Windows server on my LAN. I have some files on Windows to be copied into my unix by running a script on unix itself. So windows box ...
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SMB extremely slow when rsync from NAS? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Speeding up rsync over smb I started to rsync a mount smb share to a local raid partition yesterday evening. After 12 hours it has copied like 30% of 400 GB... the average ...
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Sync files from NAS to local harddrive?

i need a way in ubuntu to sync like 1tb of files from a NAS to a local harddrive, connected by ethernet (directly). any suggestions? it should include a progress bar, that's why 'cp' isn't the right ...
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How to copy a LDAP entry and all the subtree on a Linux/openldap server?

I want to duplicate an LDAP subtree : my software uses ou=software,o=company,c=fr and I want to have version 2 of the software to use ou=software_v2,o=company,c=fr I tried JXplore to copy the ...
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rsync and include / exclude. How hard can it be?

I'm trying to recursively copy a directory / file structure from one directory to another, keeping only html files. Should be a simple case of include / exclude shouldn't it? I just want to print out ...
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Short Image Copying USB drives on Linux

Is there an application that will do a short image copy of a USB drive to another USB drive? I need something that doesn't run off a live cd
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Utility that use the bits service to copy files

I would like to know if there is a utility that uses the bits service, to help me transfer some large files over a wacky wan connection. These files happen to be available via a UNC share. Any ...
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