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File transfer to SMB (Ubuntu 18.04 => Synology 718+) very slow

I have Synology DS718+, which I am testing with one user (myself) currently. My transfer rates from my laptop to Synology of around 2 MB/s. However copying FROM Synology back to laptop is around 30 ...
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Change the default SCP command flags in Linux

I am trying to move a file from a virtual machine (Ubuntu 18.04) on my local system to a remote server using a very basic scp command. This issue is present only on one particular server, others work ...
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Data transfer with permissions (AD) from windows to linux

good day friends, I have a problem with the transfer of data (files and folders) from a windows server (integrated with active directory) to a linux server. The active directory delivers permissions, ...
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How are cluster size, buffer size and packet size related for performance?

I'm creating a server on an embedded system. I have a FAT filesystem on an SD card which contains a file, which should be sent via HTTP to some client over wifi that connects to the system. At first ...
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Proftpd on Debian - trouble with file transfer

I have a rented VPS wieh debian installed. Recently I've installed proftpd in order to allow read-only access to everybody & full access for the particular users. I configured proftpd (with TLS) ...
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reliably write database dump directly to remote filesystem (Linux)

I need to move a very large database (~320 GB) from server1 to server2 (Linux). Because of different extension versions, the database can only be restored on server2 from a dump file as described here....
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Filezilla downloads failing for specific range of filesize?

I've been working with Filezilla at my work for a while now without any major issues, except this one. Conditions: Some issue causes file downloads to fail, since I have Filezilla set to ...
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File transfering from Windows 2008 R2 to Windows 7 client is tremendously slow

I have main office and one branch. We have PTP 700mbit/s connection across them, and 1gb/s LAN at each office. The file server is at main office and its run on Windows 2008R2 Enterprise. Lately one ...
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Can't access a user profile as administrator?

I am trying to copy the complete user profile of an old XP pc to a new computer. I want to copy the entire profile as I have to get rid of the older PC quite soon, and would sort through the files at ...
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Slow LAN transfer from 3rd party computer

I've got an odd problem that I'm not really sure where to start the troubleshooting process. I have a 'server' with Windows Server 2008R2 (64-bit) installed and it has a couple of hard drives. If I ...
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Speed of file transfer from Amzon S3 to EC2/EBS

I'm working on estimating how long it would take to download 100 GB worth of files from Amazon S3 to an EBS drive. Assuming both are in the same region, what kind of speed could be expected?
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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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How do I diagnose slow file transfers from NIC errors/collisions?

I recently attempted to transfer a 3 GB file to a machine on my LAN using rsync -azvP. I noticed I was only getting 50kpbs. Both switch ports are 100/full. When I do an ifconfig, here's what I get: ...
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Moving 15,000+ images from Shared host to VPS

I've just finished up a script I've written for my website. The VPS is purchased, now I don't know what the effective method to be able to move 15,000+ images I have on my shared host to a new VPS (...
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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 environment....
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Rsync a directory from a local server to a remote server without losing permissions

I need to transfer a directory from my local server to a remote server on the exact same place on the remote server. In the directory, there are a lot of different users involved and I want to ...
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copy a folder under linux server to windows server

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 Samba ...
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Alternative to FTP

I'm now teaching data bases and all my students get access to a virtual machine running ubuntu. They use FTP as the main way of connecting to the server and uploading their PHP files. Last time I was ...
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Linux - regularily moving directory contents

Collaboration partners of our company will upload files (typically a few GB in size) to a directory on one of our external servers. From that directory, I will move them to our internal network, where ...
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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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how to automatically and periodically upload a file from a windows machine to a unix server?

i have 2 csv files on my windows xp machine that i want to transfer to a unix server every hour (because the 2 files are updated every 30min). so i search on the web and i found this possibility: to ...
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Win32 software to sync a file system to a FTP server using checksums?

The simple question is how do you sync a Windows file system to an FTP destination periodically while never checking the destination for change unless something bad happens and not relying on file ...
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FTP put several directories without overwrite?

I was transferring a few dozen gigs from one PC to another with scp. I got disconnected and double checked and found FTP to be faster (I scp only affected CPU to encrypt) How do I resume my file ...
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How to track and log file transfers between Production and Non-Production environments?

We have a security/compliance audit that we are preparing for and since we deal with financial institutions, one of the potential flags mentioned was how we track/monitor files that are transferred ...
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How to zip lots of folders into three+ independent zip files? [closed]

I have a massive amount of folders, and I want to zip/gzip/(what ever) them into 3 or more independent files. So for example, let's say I have this directories on my server: /dir1 /dir2 /dir3 /dir4 /...
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Copy directories modified by specific users within a certain time frame from an FTP [closed]

I am trying to cleanup a 12TB Windows FTP with several million files. Basically, I want to keep the directories that are still being used by a specific subset of users who had access, and only keep ...
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Secure copying (file transfer) between two Linux servers in the same datacenter (Linode)

I have two Linodes in the same data center. I want to copy files from one to the other each night or on demand (for about the next month, until this project is finished). So I'm thinking about using ...
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scp a folder to my ubuntu server

I have a folder on my mac that I need to move over to my server. I can ssh in the server but how do i get this folder up.... say I am on my local computer and the folder is named shared and I want 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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FTP/SFTP & Fuse web passthrough without using the web server's bandwidth

I'd like to serve files mounted from a remote file store using ftp/sftp using fuse on my web server without using the web server's bandwidth. The goal is to have the web server transparently serve ...
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how to transfer files from desktop to server when using ssh

I am using ssh to connect to a server. I want to upload local files to the server. Usually I do this by opening the 'New File Transfer Window' However, i'd like to just do this from the command ...
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Managed Hosting vs Co-location

I am working on a project that will require for us to upload huge HD video files to a server. For simplicity, I was considering Managed Hosting at Rackspace with Cloud Files. However, the main work ...
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Stream backup from Linux to Windows

I have a Linux server with almost no disk space left. I fact i there is not enough space left to write a full backup to the disk, so i wonder if there is a good way to stream the backup directly to my ...
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Ubuntu Replicate Files on Remote Servers

I have server 1 and Server 2. In step one there is one script running in server1 that generates one file, after the process of creating the file is finish I need to upload the file to Server 2. What ...
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Move files from a remote ftp server to a local

I need to pull files from an ftp server regularly and have found that I can get the files easily enough using wget wget -m --user=yyy --password=xxxx ftps://host.com.au and that works really nicely. ...
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Can I use Azure file share with VM Classic?

I have a VM classic and I want to create a new VM to replace it. So I want to make use of the file share feature of Azure to transfer my files on the old VM. Both VM are running on Ubuntu. However, ...
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Transfer files from a non-host machine to a docker container and vice versa

I have a running Ubuntu docker container on a Linux machine. I have a big difficulty everytime when I'm trying to copy a file to/from the docker container from my local machine. I have to copy the ...
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Transfer 300+ GB at maximum speed on two headless servers? [closed]

I am currently trying to transfer over 300GB from my Mac Pro server to my Synology NAS. I only have my Windows PC I can work from, but I can SSH into both devices. They are both connected to gigabit ...
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Leveraging rsync for a local copy between two slow drives, benefits without a daemon

I am confused by the benefits of rsync (3.1.1) if there is no daemon running remotely, e.g. copying from a drive mounted via SMB2 (via a VPN) to an external HDD (USB 2.0, sadly). Both connections are ...
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Ubuntu Server crashes on file transfers

Upon transferring some files across server disks I lost connection and the server crashed. Plugging in a Screen showed no response at all. I had to reset the Server, which then boots normally. At ...
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bash file parameter problem

i write bash file to copy files from unix to windows and i pass the path of files as parameter to bash file :- scp -r /$1/ user@hostname:/cygdrive/c/unix_file when i execute the bash and don't pass ...
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transfer file from unix to windows? [closed]

i want to transfer file from unix server to windows 2003 server i download copssh on windows 2003 and openssh is already installed in unix ... i execute the following command :- scp -r /file_in_unix/ ...
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Creating a tgz file on a remote server without using local harddrive

I have a fairly ancient Fedora server which I have inherited from another company. I only have access to the server VIA SSH. Here are some details of the server: Linux REMOVED 2.6.15-1.1831_FC4 #1 ...
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how to disable file transfert in tightvnc?

Having tested all the VNC servers I found, I choosed Tightvnc. But it actually has one more feature that I need : file transfert. How can I disable it ?
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synchronization of file locations between two machines

Although similar threads have been asked on this site and its siblings before, I've not managed to glean the answer to this persistent question. Any help is much appreciated. The situation: I've got ...
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What is the fastest way to transfer file between home and servers?

I have a 50 megabit connection at home and a 1Gb connection at work, yet transferring files between home and the work servers is extremely slow, about 300KB/s, using HTTP FTP or RD. What should I do ...
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Getting irregular timestamps on NFS file server

Here is the situation: We have a file server that is not saving timestamps to a small portion of its files (77 files out of several million). It instead writes a default mtime of 1969-12-31 19:00 (...
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Whats the best way to file transfer my site from server to a newer one?

I have Windows 2003 server and i bought a new Windows 2008 server, i have more than 20 GB files want to migrate to the new server, i tried ftp, but its too slow.There are any better ways?
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Notifying an administrator when mail-server wasn't able to upload logs to ftp-server - if condition is failing

I am currently working on a solution, that would notify me whenever my mail-server isn't able to transfer files to my ftp-server. (Right now my logs get rotated once per night and immediately uploaded ...
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Sporadic mod_jk Client Errors when uploading large files

Note: There is a TL;DR at the end of this question. I have a nightly backup script that has been working reliably for 6 years, and two months ago, it began to fail to upload to my archive server (...
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