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windows 7 domain roaming profiles - can i set it up so that only differences are synced with local copy?

I have read answers regarding roaming profiles that recommend using folder redirection (like Profile Roaming, to make not to copy all the files to the local PC). I don't want the profile dirs to be ...
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chrony does not log anything on my ec2 instance

i am trying to gather statistics from the chrony daemon on my EC 2 (Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS) instance. i have followed aws's guide on how to set it up and it runs as expected. i need to compare the time ...
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Backup a Windows with an equivalent of rsync on Linux

I have a computer with a dual boot, a Linux and a Windows. My Linux is backuped with RSYNC on a NAS and it works fine. And from my linux I want to do the same thing with my Windows partition. So i ...
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Preserve transferred folder's modification date when downloading from SFTP server

I'm looking for an way to download folders to a Windows machine from an SFTP server, while preserving transfer folder's modification date. Servers I'm copying from uses Linux. I know that most of SFTP ...
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GPO's; Edge sync with automatic login using Domain\username instead of [email protected]

I am trying to set up Edge sync for domain joined users. They authenticate on our terminal server using the Domain\Username format. The sign in works in edge, but the synchronisation refuses. Whenever ...
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How to have samba password changed from linux ldap client?

I have set up an ubuntu lucid LDAP+SAMBA PDC, mainly based on this article: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1499753 - it works. Users can change their password by logging on to a Win Pc, and ...
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What is the best way to keep files in sync between an EC2 instance and a local Win Machine?

Premise: I'm a complete newb. So any gentle hints are much appreciated :) So, I spun up an EC2 instance and dumped my scraper I had built in Python. I've set up cronjobs to run my scraper at scheduled ...
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Suggestions for using Active Directory credentials (user name/password) with Google Apps?

I run a small college network with approximately 150 user accounts both in my Active Directory and in Google Apps. I'm looking to link AD with G-Apps. Currently my users are required to maintain ...
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KVM guest clock sync with host

I'm running KVM w/ centos 6.x. My guest vm clocks are booting with a 1-2 second lag from their host. My clocksource for the host is ntp. My clocksource for the guest is "kvm-clock", but I need to ...
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How to delete files older than 30 days with robocopy?

I have two folders synchronised with robocopy (src and mirror) and I try to not removing files in the mirror before 30 days. I tried with /MINAGE option to say "consider every files older than 30 days"...
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Finding a backup and synchronization solution [closed]

I'm having difficulties to find a backup and synchronization solution with the following characteristics: Cross-platform: Windows, Linux, Mac Transfer only new/modified bits of modified files ...
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PPS Integration with chrony

I am trying to get chrony to ingest a PPS signal to compare against just an NTP server. The PPS signal is recognized when I do ppswatch and ppstest, but when I do chronyc sources, the LastRX field ...
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SAML sync users

Currently we are using SAML SSO, the client starts the Azure Enterprise App, provides us with tenantId, appId, certificate, and its users can log in to us through their Microsoft account. Can we use ...
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Best way to transfer about 200GB of files between two windows servers

The source server is Windows Server 2003 (a VM hosted in Xen). Target is Windows Server 2016. They're in different locations and the connection is roughly 30Mbit/s and they're both on the same vpn. ...
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Simple one-way synchronisation of user password list between servers

Using a RedHat-derivative distro (CentOS), I'd like to keep the list of regular users (UID over 500), and group (and shadow files) pushed to a backup server. The sync is only one-way, from the main ...
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On-Prem AD to Azure AD Sync with existing users in both

I have an on-prem active directory domain called xyzcorp.com. I also have an Azure AD domain called xyzcorp.com. The two are not synchronized at the moment. What I want to be able to do is enable ...
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DRBD Single Primary Ignore File Types

Is it possible to have an exclusion list for file types (maybe even specific files) so that they wont try to sync with the secondary nodes? I have looked at the DRBD configuration file and cannot find ...
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Syncing web servers over WAN without port forwarding

We have multiple locations (2 now, soon to be 3) with ProxMox servers that have containers (ubuntu server) on them set up as the following (but will have more web servers): Location 1: GitLab-server ...
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SYNC a folder on Ubuntu server with amazon S3 bucket automatically

I have an app running on Digital Ocean server and there are two folders which are being updated with user uploaded images. Is it possible to transfer the new uploads from the server folder to s3 ...
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Nginx as a WebDAV server

I want to syncronise some of my applications across my server, because I do not really like to register on every service I use. I am using Nginx now, because I can do much-much more with that than ...
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Proxmox: How to replicate runnable VMs

I am quite new to Proxmox 6.0 and just started to learn clustering. I am running a test environment with an HP Proliant and an IBM rackserver (both have just one fat partition and the dataformat is ...
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Sync Windows Server shares with OneDrive [closed]

Recently one of my costumers bought office 365 and now we have a slew of space online we would like to fill, so we would like to sync some main folders from WS2012 to it so it's always accessible and ...
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NTP time synchronization [closed]

I have two Linux computers connected to each other via Ethernet crossover cable. No Internet Connection! How can I make the first computer always sync to the time of the second computer? I tried ...
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Azure File Sync with servers globally

I have a large file share in London UK with around 2TB of data, I need to share this with some users in Sydney Australia, I've previously been using DFS to share files across the locations but these ...
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Keeping a delta sync between Azure Storage blob containers

I have three different Azure Storage blob containers that are used to serve website content, one for production, one for staging and one for development. My goal is to sync staging and development ...
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Getting contact list from IMAP server

I want to update my local Thunderbird address book with a list of valid email addresses on an IMAP server. I'm not that familiar with IMAP, does it allow this? If so, could someone point me to an ...
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Bidirectional real-time sync of large file tree between two distant linux servers

By large file tree I mean about 200k files, and growing all the time. A relatively small number of files are being changed in any given hour though. By bidirectional I mean that changes may occur on ...
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How to configure Linux to ignore `sync`?

I'm re-building a server that needs to do awfully lot of I/O to complete the task. Is there a way to tell Linux to temporarily ignore all sync(), syncfs() and fdatasync() from any processes? I think ...
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File synchronization between local server and a remote web server

I have a local(in office) web server which acts as a testing platform for my website. Also its working as a SVN server to manage my websites code. Also there's a remote web server where my actual web ...
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syncronization from active directory to azure

I have created an user but with some errors, error on smtp: SMTP SIP etc... I changed it on Active Directory OU sync to azure but the values set after creation on office 365 and exchange is still the ...
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file/folder synchronization Windows/Fileshares

What is the best way to synchronize files/folders - NAS to Windows File Services and Windows File Services to NAS over 200mbps WAN connecton ( time to sync 5 minutes)
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Servers syncronization Linux Centos [closed]

I need to synchronize the data in MySQL Database from another server running same application in another Location. How to do the synchronization ? Thankyou in Advance.
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How do I setup unison to sync a folder one way

I have a 1tb NAS that has a 1tb usb external hard attached I have prepared the file system on the usb disk and mounted it I want to 100% sync my data from my nas to the usb disk - but I want it to ...
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How to configure password synchronization between two Active Directory Domains with Microsoft Identity Manager PCNS?

I have two domains with a two-ways trust relationship (selective authentication). Microsoft Identity Manager is installed, configured and "Password Change Notification Service" is configured and ...
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NTP time sync issues Windows Server 2016

So, I'm running into some issues trying to configure NTP sync on my DC. This is a Virtual Machine running on Hyper-V. I disabled time sync for this VM. I forwarded 123/udp both on the windows firewall ...
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iPhone Exchange Calandar Sync Issues

I am having problems setting up OTA sync of exchange calendars with a users iPhone at work. I set up her exchange account on the iPhone. Have it set to push. Contacts and Email loads up pretty much ...
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Issue with DC on different sites not replicating

I have a topology with 2 sites (SiteA and SiteB). Sites are connected thru a VPN (OpenVPN network to network), every traffic is playing well (Ping, SMB, RDP, SSH, Web etc.) All DCs are running ...
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If two scheduled tasks are missed, in which order will they run next?

Let's assume we have two scheduled tasks, both with the option Run task as soon as possible after a scheduled start is missed toggled on. These tasks are conflicting. In this case, one of them turns ...
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Migrating from in-house server to cloud - managed provider taking for ever

We're in the process of migrating ~500gb of data from our end-of-life, in-house server to a new Citrix-based hosted DFS. Our provider has been citing issues for some time trying to sync the data, ...
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Options to efficiently synchronize 1 million files with remote servers?

At a company I work for we have such a thing called "playlists" which are small files ~100-300 bytes each. There's about a million of them. About 100,000 of them get changed every hour. These ...
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Sync failed on IMAP dovecot

I created a new dovecot installation, and my client (Outlook 2013) is having trouble syncing (frequent errors). On the server side I see the errors below. Dec 01 17:14:36 imap-login: Info: Login: ...
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Azure Connect "soft match" issues

Before I get into the details: my problem is clearly different than the one described in this question. I'm running a single Azure Connect instance, so the problem clearly isn't due to multiple sync. ...
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What are the options to "atomically" stage different files (not having ZFS)

I need to take a backup of an SQLite3 DB matching the state of other applications writing to disk, besides a vault using the filesystem as a backend. I need to do this in a system with no ZFS so no ...
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Exchange 2007: smartphone syncing options

Consider a deployment of Exchange 2007. OWA is deployed and working well. Users want to sync their smartphones with their Exchange account (mail, contacts, calendar mostly). The Exchange configuration ...
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Ambari sync with LDAP using StartTLS

I'm facing an issue to sync Ambari with a LDAP server using StartTLS and a self-signed certificate. Ambari server and ldap server are both running on the same machine. I've followed the steps written ...
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csync2 Config command failed error

I've installed csync2 on two nodes with the following config: nossl * *; group cluster { host node1; host (node2); # Slave host key /etc/csync2/csync2.key; include /home; ...
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Best way to Sync files from Windows server 2012 R2 to another Windows server 2012 R2 with only local admin privilege

My IT dept give me 2 servers (Windows server 2012 R2), the first one have 4TB data, the 2nd one have an empty 5TB partition. I have admin privilege on both servers. I have to move all data from server-...
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Master-Master File Sync between DataCenters

My problem is regarding a master-master (3 master nodes) file synchronization setup, where each node is in a different DataCenter. I have three application servers where users can create/modify/delete ...
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Get differences between two server paths (one remote) and sync differences

I would like to sync two paths on demand (not automatically) on two CentOS servers. The goal is to send files from server A to server B if they are different. It's about 1 gig of data in text files (...
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Access Denied when syncing between s3 buckets on different AWS accounts

I'm trying to setup sync between two buckets on different AWS accounts. I got cp working with: @ubuntu:~$ s3cmd cp -v s3://src/dir/ s3://dest/folder --recursive I am the user who owns /src/dir and ...

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