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Windows wait command till a system time

I have made a batch script for backup recently. Somewhere in the middle of script I'll have to wait for some time to be reached and then resume the next line of the script. I've scheduled the script ...
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Data Transfer Pauses on LSI 9271 RAID Controller

I have a server equipped with a LSI 9271-8i RAID controller, with 4 x 4TB organized as RAID-5 and 1 x 8TB as JBOD (which is called RAID-0 in the controller). When I copy bigger amounts of data (~1 TB)...
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Linux command to wait for a SSH server to be up

I have a script which creates a virtual machine and gives me back an IP address. Then I would like to do something like this: waitforssh 192.168.2.38 && ssh 192.168.2.38 And it will wait ...
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Ansible (2.8) Collect All Usernames / Passwords at the Start of a Sequence of Playbooks / Roles

I have a collection of playbooks and roles that build a fairly complex application platform: several playbooks, several roles, and multiple inventory files define specific variants of the platform. ...
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Long 'pause' after copying large files on windows 2008

I have a mystery regarding pauses after file copies on windows server 2008 (and other releases) When copying large files, like vhds, to locally attached USB disks I often see a long pause after the ...
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Windows 2003 batch file Sleep/Wait function [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How to sleep in a batch file? I have a batch file that runs as a secheduled task in windows server 2003. This batch file purely calls around 20 other batchfiles one after the ...
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Hang while starting several daemons

I’m running a Debian Squeeze AMD64 server. Target runlevel after boot is runlevel 2, which includes rsyslogd, cron, sshd and some other stuff, but not dovecot, postfix, apache2, etc. The system fails ...
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PHP + Apache long wait time

I've run into a bit of a brick wall with troubleshooting my dedicated websever. Recently, my website spiked with the amount of request/per second and it crashed. The box original had 8GB of RAM, 8 ...
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How to solve a long "Wait" time, on a dedicated server of a pretty large website

Thanks for reading this. We got an issue with our web server, we have a rather large website, with 500-800 concurrent users at any time, we use a dedicated server to host it, we use prefork to ...
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How can i pause Hyper-V VMs incase rebooting host?

I want to do such setting that all vms should be paused(instead of shutdown) when host server reboots suddenly. Visualization tec: win 2k8 r2 with hyper-v
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Regular system hiccups on RHEL5 workstation

I have a RHEL5 workstation that has recently started to "hiccup". About every thirty seconds, it apparently completely stops execution for about 4 seconds. Seemingly nothing runs during that period. ...
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Quit running screen on Linux

I know you can do Control+C to force quit it, but say I am running a program on the screen such as a Minecraft server... how do I leave the screen while in SSH without shutting off the screen/server? ...
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How to pause clients certificate activity for OpenVPN?

I use OpenVPN and also I want to pause activity of some client certificates, and after some time to start it again (without new certificate generation). So how to do this?
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Random temporary network freeze on kvm guest machines

I'm running two guest machines under KVM. The host is running Arch Linux (kernel version 2.6.38.2), the guests are both CentOS 5.5 (kernel version 2.6.18). I have the networking set up as a bridge, ...
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When a browser's loading status is "waiting," is it trying to resolve DNS? or something else?

I have a website that is occasionally slow loading. I'm not referring to the download speed. But sometimes Firefox's status will sit at "Waiting for xxx.com" for 15-20 seconds. After the wait period, ...
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What does SQL Server's BACKUPIO wait type mean?

I'm using Sql Server 2008 ("R1"), with some maintenance plans that back up my databases to a network share. Some of my backup jobs show long waits of type "BACKUPIO". Of course it seems like this is ...
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Why shouldn't a domain controller be suspended or paused

I've seen it mentioned on Server Fault as well as in a Technet Blog that you should never pause or suspend a domain controller. While searching through Microsoft's documentation on the subject, I only ...