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Final move of data after synchronising folders
I am migrating six terabytes of data from legacy systems to new. The legacy data is stored in file vault application which retrieves files very slowly. Because of this it took six weeks to copy the ...
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Does Windows contain default System ACLs for auditing purposes?
While trying to test SACL creation on a filesystem object, I noticed that it was not logging to the event log. After some digging, I found that I had to flip the "master switch" in Local Security ...
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0kb file in system32 cannot be deleted on windows server 2008
I am trying to install the .NET framework 4.0 on my Windows Server 2008 R2. I had it installed before, but for some other reason I uninstalled and now wan't to reinstall it.
My problem is, there is a ...
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How to find out who is deleting files on a Linux server?
We have a Linux server which is Ext4 and another Linux Server which has an ISCSI where Windows clients have shared folders.I need to
Allow users to modify files and not delete them. A user has ...
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What is the impact of running backups during office hours? [closed]
Currently, we run Windows (2008 Server) backup on our fileserver every night, which is then copied across to an archive store and external drives which are taken off-site.
However, our building ...
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Copy past speed very slow for a large number of files on Windows
I've run the following test I've created a folder containing 15'000 files of 400 bytes using this batch :
@ECHO off
SET times=15000
FOR /L %%i IN (1,1,%times%) DO (
fsutil file createnew ...
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What's the risk in turning off Windows XP file system tunneling?
File system tunneling is discussed in the answers to this question: Incorrect file creation date in Windows XP/Vista
Does any recent software depend on file system tunneling to maintain the creation ...
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Which filesystem to use for a samba share when all clients use Windows 7?
My NAS runs Linux and currently directly shares its XFS directories. Since I want to use encryption (e.g. TrueCrypt or dm-crypt/LUKS), I have the freedom of filesystem choice for the container. All ...
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Folder doesn't show up in explorer, cmd, and python even though I can access it, how can I fix this?
I am accessing another computer on the network using a mapped network drive. The path looks like \\192.168.0.100\d$ which is mapped to my computer's "m" drive. I can access, view, create, delete, ...
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How to automate database backup of windows machines
I have a network containing 10 Windows workstations and 1 Windows 7 machine which acts as a server. I am planning to take a monthly backup of a folder called "MYFILES" which will be on all of the ...
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Requiring mulitple group membership in order to access folder
How would I go about creating a file or folder that requires a user to be a member of two or more different groups in order to read/write to the folder?
For example, say I run an auto repair shop, ...
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How to create hotfolder solution
So, I recently got a request to come up with the following solution. I'm sure there's a bunch of ways to do this, including writing a custom script, but I wanted to know the best recommended way to ...
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Does exists a tool for monitoring which files changes?
does exists a tool to monitor how many, and which files are changed day by day ?
I would like to 'monitor' how many Mbyte /Gbyte of data changes in my company file server day by day for a 'remote' ...
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Recovering a VHD after resizing it using VBoxManage
I am using VirtualBox 4.1.18 and had a virtual machine running Windows 8 RC with a single VHD, which was initially sized at 25GB (too small!).
After installing the OS and some applications I ran out ...
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Files being rolled back on server 2008 R2
I've got a weird situation occurring on my dev server. Randomly, and for no reason that I can see, files are being rolled back to an earlier version!
This has happened twice now - the first time I ...
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File creation time on Windows vs Linux
We have following setup:
mountserver - debian linux
fileserver1 - Windows 2008 R2 Storage server
fileserver2 - Celerra NS20 exporting CIFS share
workstation - windows 7 with mapped drive to share ...
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What equivalent technologies to Microsoft's forthcoming ReFS exist for Linux/Unix?
With the announcement and write-up of ReFS (Resilient File System) on places like arstechnica, I am curious to know what technology, or technology stack, exists for Linux/Unix for a similar outcome.
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What filesystem should I use for an external USB drive that works for Mac, Linux and Windows? [closed]
At home I have multiple operating systems, Linux (debian), Mac OS X Lion and Winders 7. I have a large USB drive that I want to use to backup/transport files. What filesystem should I use that will ...
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Is there a quick way to see what filesystem filter drivers are loaded on Windows 2008?
The question says it all, I think. I vaguely remember there was an easy way to do this, but don't remember what it was.
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Can't access NTFS file after BSOD. Corruption undetectable by chkdsk?
We have several files on a Windows server that show up in directory listings but can't be accessed. I can take ownership of the files, and the ACL shows that Everyone has read/write/execute access; ...
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Comparison of file system replication / clustering / etc options for HA front end websites
We have what we believe to be a very common problem but are having trouble coming up with a solid answer. In our production Windows web environment we have 4 redundant public-facing web servers. ...
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Windows Text Search Tool Including PDFs [closed]
Looking for recommendations for tool/process to search through roughly 2TBs of data looking for certain phrases. This would include office docs, .txt, and PDFs.
I see a lot of tools out there for ...
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Permission audit on Windows file system
We're connecting a SharePoint 2010 to our file system so it can crawl and index the files on our network. However, the files have incorrect permissions in many cases and so we need to perform a ...
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ESENT fails to determine the minimum I/O block size
I'm trying to get RavenDB running in embedded mode on a shared/multi-tenant webhost. RavenDB relies on the ESENT storage API. The filesystem on the hosting machines is locked down. The RavenDB ...
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Securing file content in folders under Windows
Is there a way to allow a user to create a file in a folder under Windows, but not allow them to edit the contents of the files?
This would be analogous to setuid on FreeBSD systems, where files ...
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Measuring disk seeks under windows
I would like to measure the number of disk seeks that are made by a process under Windows. If I open Task Manager, I can see a column named "I/O - reads". Is this the equivalent of disk seeks? Can I ...
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How to cause file system corruption for test purposes?
AFAIK the reasons for file system corruption are as follows:
improper shutdown (hard reset);
hardware failures (bad block on disk, bad disk controller);
improper startup (mounting damaged file ...
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Is a child directory “underneath” or “above”?
Is there a defined rule when to use underneath and when to use above when describing a child directory? I have encountered (and used) both:
Make sure the config file is stored above the web root.
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How could I receive files (on windows) from pendrive which were pasted there on linux?
I have following issue: I had pendrive formatted for windows and copied there some files on linux (ubuntu), now on windows Vista I can't see them (folder seems to be empty). Is there any free software ...
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Windows file system and its speed problem
We have a server which is overwhelmed by files used by a web app. Because the number of files in the server is too great the overall performance of the whole server has degraded (including other ...
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Configure Windows filesystem for developer builds
I'm putting together a Windows box that will act as a continuous integration build server; we'll mostly build C# stuff using MSBuild, but I think this question applies to any compiled language on ...
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Cost of storing many files on a fileserver
I need to store a lot of data contained in SQLite databases on a file server. I have the opportunity to split the data up into many files. This means that there is less risk of a large part of the ...
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Utility to check Windows NTFS ACL/ACE dependency integrity
I'm having issues with imaging a NTFS filesystem where the ACL/ACE of a file has invalid ACL/ACE dependencies. chkdsk does not detect or fix the problem. Is there a tool available to detect (fixing is ...
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How to check the creator of a file in Windows?
I want to find out who created a certain file but all I can see under Security tab is Administrators group being pointed out as owner.
This is not very helpful.
How can I see who really created the ...
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How much performance is gained from setting NtfsDisable8dot3NameCreation = 1?
You can tune NTFS with different parameters in the registry and an TechNet articles states that you increase file performance by setting NtfsDisable8dot3NameCreation to 1 in the registry.
In real ...
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most efficient way to expose storage to windows on network?
using Nexenta or Opensolaris...on server grade h/w: SAS disks + 1GB layer3 switch:
CIFS would only do 10 MB/s. Adding more servers would bump this to 10 MB/sec per server?
dont know about NFS ...
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Which filesystem would you use when you need to share data between linux and windows in dual-boot setup?
On my system i have windows 7 and ubuntu 10.04 installed.
I need to share large amounts of data between both OS. My idea is to set up a partition which both system can access and exchange data. Any ...
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Linux/Windows/Unix/… file names: Which characters are allowed? Which are unescaped?
Which characters are allowed and which of them must be escaped on the command line in different operating systems?
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Command or tool to display list of connections to a Windows file share
Is there a Windows command or tool that can tell me what users or computers are connected to a Windows fileshare?
Here's why I'm looking for this:
I've run into issues in the past where our ...
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Is real-time or synchronous replication possible over WAN link?
The company I work for is looking to implement truly real-time file replication with file locking over a WAN link that spans over 2000 miles. We currently have a 16-drive SAN setup in our east coast ...
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How can you make a Windows USB HDD Modify All for All Users
I use a USB HDD a lot between lots of different Windows Boxes.
What I find after a while is that there get to be lots of different Permission on the files in some cases stopping me looking at files ...
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IIS can't serve files with accents and spaces in filenames
My server recently stopped serving files with accents and spaces in the filename.
An example:
http://jf-monteabraao.pt/UserFiles/File/OP%C3%87%C3%95ES%20DO%20PLANO%20-%20OR%C3%87AMENTO%202010.pdf
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Is there a performance penalty for having too many files in a windows folder
On a windows OS (Server 2003, XP, Vista, Win7 etc.), is there a performance penalty for having too many files in a single folder?
Will a folder scan become slower (when viewing the folder in ...
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Remove invalid SIDs from filesystem ACLs in Windows
Is there an automated way to traverse a filesystem and remove any ACL entries that reference invalid SIDs in any version of Windows with NTFS?
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Can I mount a Novell NCP file system in Windows and use it like a standard lettered drive?
If I have a Novell NCP file system can I mount it in Windows and use it as a lettered drive, e.g. G:\?
I'm trying to work out if an application based in Java, running on Apache Tomcat can access a ...
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Any Available Versioning File Systems like VMS used to have
I am looking for a versioning file system like VMS used to have. Are there any modern equivalents I can host for Windows clients?
Requirements:
Ability to map a drive to the shared file system from ...
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Tool to search text in big files
I'm looking for a tool to find a line containing a searced text inside a file that has a size of 4 GB
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Negative aspects of hiding file extensions in Windows
At my company we work with a lot PDF files. We rename them often; hundreds of pdf files a week and almost all of them have to be renamed.
I have always configured windows to show file extensions. ...
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Decrypting EFS w/o altering timestamp - possible?
I'd like to decrypt some EFS-encrypted files, but I do not know how to do that without altering the timestamp. When encrypting/decrypting files, the modified-time is set to the current time. I'd like ...
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File Operation not supported on Windows drives mounted on Ubuntu
My Windows drives are automatically mounted in Ubuntu. File operations on Windows drives had been going well until today when creating a directory on a nfts Windows drive is denied:
$ mkdir ...
