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Fast Internet Backup
We wish to install some servers in a remote datacentre to act as a backup storage location for our primary datacentre.
Assuming that both sites will have GigE connectivity, what is the best method to ...
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Kermit - how-to select files based on age
I've been asked to code a method to move FTP files from 'many' directories to 'one'.
Files to be moved must be older than 15 minutes OR have completed their upload.
On my first pass at the problem ...
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Use scp to copy a file to different servers
I have to copy a file to different servers almost every day. What I usually do is:
scp filename user@destinationhost:/destination/folder
I run this same command changing the destination host over ...
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How can I automate the process of fetching files from remote Windows servers?
We have a handful of machines that we administer: some Windows 2003/8 and some various flavors of Unix. I need to write some sort of script/task/etc (I'm a programmer, so any language/tool is fine) ...
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How to move files from one server to another?
I have about 600MB on a remote web server that I'd like to copy to a PC, then copy to a new server. I tried FileZilla, but it failed partway through the transfer from the old server and couldn't ...
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Terminal server - disconnect possible if no client activity, but file transfer
We are testing a file transfer script that is started through a client session on a terminal server - the client is Ubuntu rdesktop. What we find is that the session is disconnected after a while, ...
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Copying compressed files from Server 2008 R2 network share to XP client via VPN fails
At the first sight the question looks similar to this one.
I have experienced an odd behavior while trying to copy a certain file from Windows Server 2008 R2 network share to Windows XP Professional ...
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Speed up rsync by running multiple instances at once?
I have to transfer a big directory to another server.
My problem is that i cannot use the full bandwidth that would be available, because one concurrent tcp stream does not get as fast.
Basically ...
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What is a useful “transfer large things” method/medium? [closed]
Other than through the network, what does everyone use for transferring things like system images or very large files?
For example, external case+hard drive like a myBook. Or, extremely large ...
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How to set up a torrent server on Ubuntu?
I need to distribute extremely large files over separated networks. (Netherlands to China, and Netherlands to India), files sizes vary from 5 to 50GB. Since file is stored on several machines, and ...
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Sharing large (multi-Gb) files with clients
I wasn't sure if this was the best place for this question, but I think it is squarely in the realm of the IT admin so that's the reason I put it here.
We need to share large files (several ...
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Hosted form of web-based file transfer tools [closed]
I'm looking for some software that will provide a service that resembles SendThisFile.com. My users generally turn to services like these when they are trying to send files that exceed the mail ...
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How can we share large files with people outside of our firewall?
We sometimes need to share/recieve large files (sometimes in the gigabytes) to outside contractors or customers. These files are mostly CAD drawings, but could include almost anything. We want to only ...
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How to transfer files betwen 2 hosting servers?
I have a live website that I want to change my hosting provider to a new hosting company. Currently I have several gigabytes of data as a .zip files in my old hosting environment that I want to shift ...
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What's the best way to transfer a huge folder (4GB+) across Servers
I need to transfer a dvd's worth of content in a folder - many small files, some big across servers on a consistent basis.
What's the best way of doing this?
This is for a windows server ...
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Transferring data from old dedicated server to a new one
I have a Windows 2003 dedicated server account with WebFusion and they are just awful, I'm not afraid to say. I would like to transfer to a GoDaddy Windows 2008 dedicated server in the next week or ...
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How can I transfer a large number of big files over local network with pause/resume support? [closed]
My MacBook has about 400GB of files (videos, music, documents, etc.) that I need to transfer to a Windows PC over my local network. My router is semi-disfunctional, though, so every so often it stops ...
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SSH file transfers hang after ~700KB
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I'm scripting SFTP file transfers on a Windows 7 box in the field. When I transfer zip files larger than a megabyte or so, the transfer (and SSH) stops unexpectedly after about 700KB. The ...
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Transfer Files From Multiple External USB Drives to Linux Server San Storage
We want to transfer files from multiple external USB drives to a Linux server connected to SAN storage.
The USB Drives are formated with NTFS and contain media i.e. Images/Videos and will each range ...
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server 2008 to 2003 slow filetransfer using cifs
I just tried copying a file over cifs (windows file sharing) between a server 2003 R2 and a new server 2008 SP1 and I'm getting horrible speed.
it's a 300MB file that is taking around 30 minutes to ...
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When the TCP engine decides to send an ACK?
In my LAN, I have a router that runs a Samba server and my PC connects to the router.
I wiresharked during a uploading to the server and a downloading from the server.
The wireshar results show ...
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Effect of distance from server on page load speed
I measured the load speed of a static image file severed by nginx from my server (using pingdom service). The server should normally process this request within few seconds. My server is located in ...
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Transfer files using ssh
I am using ssh (WinSCP) to transfer some files from a server to my workstation.
The problem is that at some files I get disconnected. Always same files. I am the owner of the directory so I guess ...
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What is the fastest protocol for transferring small files between a high latency VPN?
I have ~70ms latency over my VPN connection and need to set up a backup/replication system. SMB is the worst, with throughput ~200KB/s. SCP gives me ~400KB/s. HTTP ~700KB/s. The links are symmetric ...
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Transfer files between Shared Hosting servers using FTPES
I have two shared hosting servers and a VPS. One at ixwebhostings with their panel and other is a cPanel hosting. I would like to move some files between these two. ixwebhosting supports FTP and ...
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Checksumming to verify rsync transfers
So rsync runs some checksums in the course of deciding what to transfer (i.e. what blocks within a file). But is there any reason to trust the file you end up with on the receive side any more than ...
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Why data sending is heavier for CPU than data receiving?
I have a Samba server configured in my PC.
When other PCs in LAN download data from the server, top command shows smbd occupies 75% CPU.
While they transfer data to the server, top command shows smbd ...
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Is there an equivalent to ssh-copy-id for Windows?
Is there any equivalent or port of ssh-copy-id available for Windows? That is, is there an easy way to transfer SSH keys from a local machine to a remote server under Windows?
In case it helps, I'm ...
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How can I boost WiFi data transfer rate?
I have a wireless router that clients are using to have internet and file transfer in our company. The link speed is 54Mbit within all clients.
But it seems that is impossible to exceed ~8 mbit which ...
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Web server slow when transfering many images
Here is a little background of a intermittent but very real problem. I maintain a web application that is running on Esxi private cloud. We have a database server, and 4 web application servers. The 4 ...
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Network issue - Very slow while RXing but TXing is fine
I am trying to transfer a 10GB file to test my network. But when I transfer from Workstation 1 to Workstation 2, it takes 8 minutes (which is fine). But from Workstation 2 to Workstation 1, the ...
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File transfer - Bandwidth flickering for no reason
We are experiencing file transfer issues. I try to troubleshoot this problem but it is really hard.
Here is a screenshot I took while transferring a file from my workstation to another server. The ...
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Transferring 60GB of data over fiber connection - VPN connection times out [closed]
In an attempt to transfer a 60GB file (SQL database file) over the wire via a VPN connection, we're only able to get about 1/8 the file over. How can we get around this timeout issue? Or do we have ...
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How to speed up file copying onto a VMWare virtual server?
One of the sites I work at uses VMWare virtual servers. For the most part they work very well, but copying large files onto them from other places on the network is very slow.
By large files I mean ...
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Transfer 10TB of files from USA -> UK datacenter
I am migrating my server from the USA to the UK from one data center to another, my host said I should be able to achieve 11 megabytes per second.
Operating system is Windows Server 2008 at both ...
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cwRsync performance on Win Server 2003
I've tested several cases for cwRsync (3.0) on Win Server 2003. My scenario is have a rsync daemon on a source host with source files ~3GB total. And there're 50 dest servers running rsync command to ...
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Windows 7 - Network File Copy Intermittently Fails During Upload to NAS
The client machine is running 64 bit Windows 7 and attempting to copy a relatively small file to our NAS device. The NAS device is a Lacie model running (I believe) some variant of Windows XP and has ...
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How to avoid stalled scp transfer when tunneling through a gateway over ssh?
I'm try to transfer a large (1GB+) file from one machine to another, but I have to tunnel through a gateway in between. I'm able to transfer small files just fine. However, with the big file, the ...
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how to optimize transatlantic TCP transfers?
I transfer large files between two of my servers one in the US and the other in the Netherlands and I'm wondering if there are any tweaks I can apply that will increase the speed of a transatlantic ...
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Fastest way to copy large file directory over slow internet
I need to copy a directory from one of our servers several hundred miles away. Both sites where I am and where the files are have business cable. The cable is 5 Mbps(Down) / 768 Kbps(Up). This poses a ...
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Need to transfer ~3TB of data to a remote server [duplicate]
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Copy large file from one Linux server to another
I need to transfer about ~3tb of data to another server. I am currently using rsync -z but it is going at 250kb/s so it ...
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How can I ensure non-corrupt file transfer in linux?
I have script scheduled with cron that transfers a file around to other machines using scp filename user@host:~ and today have noticed that sometimes the md5 of the files don't match. Upon closer ...
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Transfer a file from remote server A to remote server B from server C
I have an interesting problem I'm trying to solve. I have a JumpBox server that I have in order to securely ssh into client's servers. This is the only server my clients ever open up port 22 to. ...
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Which FTP server on Windows or Linux do support MODE C (Compression)
can you recommend a FTP server which
supports MODE C (Compression)
and runs on Windows or Linux or BSD
Note, that MODE C is different from MODE Z (ZLIB). Most FTP servers on *nix and windows does ...
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Secure file transfer to transfer files to clients
Today, our company is using an FTP Server to transfer files to clients, vendors and more.
Now, we want something more secure.
Needs
Uploading with FTP (Windows Explorer, no own program), Browser ...
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Ignore windows hidden files when copying with rsync
I need to keep in sync a very large directory structure (a few hundreds GB) between a Windows machine and a Linux machine. I'm using rsync to do the copy because it automatically ignores unchanged ...
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Transfer large files over the internet from a Linux VPS to Windows machine
I regularly need to transfer files that are a few gigabytes in size from a Linux VPS to my home Windows machine. I am trying to find a transfer method that fits my needs. FTP/SFTP works but is quite ...
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Best to move my transaction backups one way when they are created
I have read and tried a number of sync options, but none of them meet my exact needs. What I am doing:
I move .trn files from one Windows 2008 server to another in another location
I need the ...
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Openssh sftp-server: .filepart support?
I am trying to setup a SFTP server, running off Ubuntu Server 11.04. I installed openssh-server to provide SSH access. What I am trying to do is make file uploads run with a suffix (.filepart or ...
