Questions tagged [file-transfer]
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SSHFS performance tanks, why?
I have two Ubuntu 22.10 computers connected one to another via SSHFS. When I copy small files there is no problem but... once I start copying several gigabytes of data at a time, the performance sinks ...
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How to troubleshoot a server having SFTP, SCP transfer speeds of around 500 KB/s with many but not all machines?
We have two Ubuntu servers that have very slow upload and download SFTP, SCP, and RSYNC speeds, around 500 KB/s, when connecting from most home machines. These servers have fast corporate Internet ...
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Discovering the speed of data transfer between my server and another server that I don't have access to [closed]
What solution do you have so that I can get the speed of downloading from a server or uploading to a server on the TCP or UDP protocol, which I do not have access to that server? but I have root ...
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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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Copying files from remote to local using lftp in unix
I'm trying to write a script to copy some files from a remote ftp server to a local directory. I have seen lots of examples using the mirror command of lftp but so far none of them seem to work. ...
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transfer file at iperf bandwidth/throughput
I need to transfer a file between 2 servers, the output of iperf is:
TCP window size: 85.0 KByte (default)
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[ 3] local X.X.X.X port 58986 ...
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How to automatically move files from one server to another servers - not syncing but moving
I need to securely and automatically move files from several "inboxes" on one Windows 2019 server to several "outboxes" on other Windows 2019 servers. The servers are located ...
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Is it possible to force Windows 10 to use higher TCP window scale?
I have two Windows 10 machines (bld 2004) I am trying to send data to between two sites. The sites average about 50ms RTT with no packet loss. I am having an issue where the max transfer rate I can ...
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How to access files from a local server with infiniband without using IP
I want to start of by saying that I'm very inexperienced with everything I'm doing so please take it easy on me.
I have 4 computers each with Red hat Enterprise Linux server 7.8 installed, they are ...
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Slow File Transfer Speeds (~300kB/s) Between Hyper-V Guest and Host/Other Remote Machine in Azure
Slow File Transfer Speeds (~300kB/s) Between Hyper-V Guest and Host/Other Remote Machine in Azure
I am seeing extremely slow file transfer speeds between the guest VM and the host VM or directly from ...
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Local ethernet file transfers slower than internet downloads
I have an SSD drive connected to my router's USB 3.0 port. My computer is connected to the routeur directly through ethernet (no switch) and runs Windows 10. When downloading files from the internet ...
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How can I transfer a dedicated bare metal server into a VM?
I have the following problem: We have a dedicated (bare metal) hardware server (Debian 10) on which we have no direct physical access. Now I want to transfer all data and applications that are on this ...
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Sync files from several Windows computers to a central Windows/Linux server
Background:
Several production machines produce text files with various information that we want to aggregate centrally.
The machines are running all versions of WinXP, 7, 10.
The machines are tightly ...
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Recently my NFS RAID performance has gone from very good to basically unusable
First, thanks for any help anyone is willing to give!
I have two ubuntu 20.04 servers with two different software RAIDs on them. One is music and movies (RAID6) and the other is personal docs and ...
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Rsync Files only if they have not been changed in the last 2 minutes
I'm trying to write a simple cronjob that looks in a specific directory, performs a find command to determine if a file has been modified in the last two minutes, and if not, transfer that file to ...
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How to block Filetransfer through RDP (Port 3389)?
For security reasons I have to restrict/disable file transfer via RDP (port 3389) from and to Remote Machines (Windows 10). Is the file transfer tunneled through port 3389, or can I safely prevent a ...
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Sudo needed a second time when rsync files with ssh key
I use a command to transfer files with rsync and a ssh key:
sudo rsync -P -e 'ssh -i <absolute path to keyfile>' <file> user@<server>
I need the first sudo because the file I'm ...
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Convert MacCyrillic encoding in filenames to IBM866 on NTFS filesystem
After copying files from MacOS system to Windows share through samba, I got filenames like:
Сђ•вл
К†в†ЂЃ¶≠л• Ђ®бвл.pdf
П†бѓЃав.doc
And normally they should look like:
Сметы
Каталожные листы.pdf
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How can I easily (e.g. as easy as rsync or SCP) do a high speed (1gpbs) file upload over an Internet-latency link?
I recently asked a similar question about how to transfer large (many gigabyte to many tens of gigaytes) files over the Internet when latency is high. I got a great answer, but only for downloads. ...
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What cloud solutions are there to connect different sites/branches?
I'm somewhat new to the field, but I have been tasked with coming up with the best way to connect remote customer sites to our two main offices. The data sent across from the customer to the main ...
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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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getting all files in a directory via SFTP with a variable appended before file names
I am downloading all files in a directory via SFTP using below syntax:
sshpass -p 'mypass' sftp name@$IP:/var/log/*
With above one-liner, I'm able to download all files from /var/log
But I want the $...
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Download a file from remote Linux to local Windows (user access at Linux machine with ssh; I cannot install software on Windows and no PuTTY) [closed]
I have user access at Linux machine. I am able to connect to Linux machine with ssh from Windows machine and execute Linux commands.
I cannot install any software on Windows machine. I do not have ...
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Is there a way to make CrossFTP or DragonDisk access path-style s3 server?
I'm trying to find a way to speed up the transfer of 95gb of data to my company's Object Storage.
I'm transfering the files via node/aws-sdk but it's too slow.
I already tried ManagedUpload and ...
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Are there good ways to transfer very large files (2TB) over the Atlantic?
My company regularly needs to send about 2TB of data from the US to the UK (the size of the compressed delta is 2TB). Even though each side has good internet connectivity, sending files directly is ...
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Transferring 87000+ files from one debian server to another efficiently?
I have two servers and need to copy 87000+ files from old server (Debian 9) to the new server (Debian 10), tried using sftp but the connection keeps getting dropped midway and it is taking too much ...
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Sending files from a TS server to a client workstation
Due to concerns with viruses, my boss wants to turn off the clipboard redirection on our TS/RDP servers - so that there is no possibility of copying files to the server. He does however, want to ...
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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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Efficient parallel file transfer between two hosts using mutliple 10GbE NIC ports
I need to regularly transfer large amounts (several TBs) of video files between two servers on a 10G network. I want to decrease the overall time it takes to finish the job.
I am running CentOS7. I ...
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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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ftp and http are very slow with IIS on windows server 2016
I had Cenots with proftpd ftp server and I was getting the maximum upload speed my connection can reach.
However we had to convert this server to windows server 2016. I installed IIS from server ...
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Copy large amounts of data from S3 Bucket to Bucket, different regions
Alright, so I'm setting up an off-site backup of my S3 data and have set up Cross-Region Replication to a new bucket in another region. However I have a lot of data in the original bucket which needs ...
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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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LINUX / WINDOWS - Strange behavior when transferring files
Question : How files transfer could be slow and normal at the same time ?
Transfer initiated from : Windows 7 computer on VLAN computer
Source : NSD share (samba from IBM GPFS) on VLAN server
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Copying terabytes of hundreds of thousands of files in folder slow
I am currently running FreeNAS and using SMB 3 on windows machines to copy folders with 80000+ files that are all about 35MB each. Here is the config
FreeNAS
2x40Gbps connections bonded
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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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Permission denied when using scp, but able to ssh
I'm trying to copy a file from my local desktop to a remote server.
Yes - the remote directory I want to copy to is set to chmod 777
Yes - the server is password protected, and I am sure I have the ...
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How do increase data transfer rate between my VMs
I saw lots of article,but didn't answer my question.
My server use VMware vSphere Hypervisor.
There are 20 virtual machines in my server.
VM operating system : centos7
I already change my vSwitch ...
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Transfer speed to network share drops
I have an older HP Proliant ML350 G6 server with 1 x Xeon E5504 (2.0 ghz) and 8 gb ram.
If I copy a large file (over 2 gb) to it from a windows 10 workstation, after about 1.5 gb the transfer speed ...
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SCP hangs before File Transfer begins
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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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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How to verify checksum after copying 2 TB of 6 million files over USB?
I have a situation where I need to move over 2 TB of data from one server to another server in another data center. There are over 6 million files to copy.
The plan is to move data in phases. For ...
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Server OS or PowerShell version differences that would affect copy speed?
I recently moved many, many files at 2 different locations. It was exactly the same set of data on each, using an identical robocopy command, but what took under 30 minutes on Windows Server 2012 R2 ...
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Move Large Azure Storage Container To Another Account
I have a large blob container in one Azure Storage Account in one Directory (abc.com) that I would like to move to another Storage Account in a completely different Directory (efg.com).
Is the only ...
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Cannot transfer large file(s) using remote desktop connection (Windows 2012 server)
I am trying to transfer over a large file using remote desktop. I end up getting this error from the image below. Source computer is a windows 7 laptop and destination is a windows 2012R2 server.
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Why is My Network file Transfer Slower Than (What I Thought) it Should Be? [closed]
I'm trying to copy a 40Gb 7zip archive within my network.
The computer sending has an Intel Centrino 130, that's supposed to be 802.11 b/g/n compatible. The router is a Pace 4111n which is also ...
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Copy Windows files to SMB share (Synology) and keep all properties
I have a network drive with files that need to move to a new Synology NAS SMB network share. I'd like to transfer the files while keeping as much properties as possible.
I tried robocopy and fastcopy,...
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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 allow "append only" (push) access from a remote server to a central server?
How to allow a remote server to push data onto a central server without having any other access.
That is, how to allow the remote server to only append but not overwrite or read files on the central ...
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How to Diagnose Strange Network Failure
This is a strange one. I have 2 remote networks that I transfer files between over the internet. Yesterday, a regular backup job failed, so I started looking into it. I have been transferring files ...
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