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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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Whats the best way to shuttle large files between many servers?

Im currently using scp, but it seems to become slower and slower every day. Im up to 30 servers, and I need to shuffle around 3-5k files per day, with the average size of 200-400MB. I used rsync ...
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copy all *.mkv in subdirectories to parent directory

Roughly, I have a folder setup like this on a linux server: /show/season01/show01/shows01e01.mkv /show/season02/show01/shows02e01.mkv /show/season03/show01/shows03e01.mkv I want to eliminate the ...
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Copying mounted/used big file

Do you know any Linux app which is able to copy mounted/used file? Similar behaviour to rebuilding RAID1 array - you can use master drive, while the second is rebuilding/mirroring content from the ...
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copying large directory with cp fills memory

We are using rsnapshot for backups. It uses hard links to efficiently store unchanged files, and rsyncs the changed files from servers. The hard linking part calls a command like this cp -al ...
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Parallel File Copy

I have a list of files I need to copy on a Linux system - each file ranges from 10 to 100GB in size. I only want to copy to the local filesystem. Is there a way to do this in parallel - with multiple ...
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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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Samba by CIFS, problems with copying directory tree

I have server with samba share, which is mounted by CIFS on my client machine under /media/photos. /media/photos ownership is root:samba, and my user also is member of group samba. In smb.conf on ...
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copy a folder under linux server to windows server

Hello I need to find a way to transfer the daily backup folder of my Debian server to a Windows server weekly. What would be the easiest and most stable way to achieve this? Would I definitely need a ...
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How would I grab a text file off of a windows machine from a linux cli?

I am writing a bash script to analyze the mail logs on our network, which is mostly postfix boxes, but would like to include MS Exchange logs in the analysis if possible. Is there any way to copy a ...