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zip of files with extended attributes

I need to archive and compress a large number of files but some of those files may have extended attributes whose content I don't want to lose. My understanding is that zip doesn't do that. Is there something that does? I believe that some versions…
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MongoDB Backup & purge

I'm exploring solutions for a basic dbadmin need : periodically backing up and purging data in MongoDB. Basically, I need a logrotate for mongodb. I have a backend program filling a collection. I deliberately didn't implement a backup and purge…
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Exchange 2013 - New Archive Database

Some of my Exchange 2013 accounts have a giant mailbox, and Outlook runs very SLOW, I want to create a separate Archive Mailbox. I think the best practice to do this is to create a new Exchange Database on my server called (for example)…
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How to maintain up-to-date snapshot tar archive efficiently?

I have a large directory of files and I would like to maintain a single compressed tar archive that I can server over http containing all the files which is brought up to date once each day. Many of the files will not change day-to-day and I'd like…
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Tar command Solaris version for files larger than 2 GB

We have several files larger than 2GB tared using tar command UNIX version (SunOS 5.5 with last change: 1995!). There is "E" flag to tar files > 2GB. This is how it was been done: rsh sun_server tar cvEf - abc/file1 abc/file2 | rsh archive_server…
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Is there a way to use netcat to transfer a gzipped file to a remote destination?

I have an archive I need to transfer to a remote destination but the target drive is not big enough to hold both the compressed archive and the uncompressed files. I wonder if there are some utilities which can decompress the archive as the data…
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enkive mail archive search functionality

I have set up enkive mail archive as shown in the installation guide, with exchange setup. Few problems that I have are: Archiving same email twice searching for recipient or sender does not complete, displays as running searching for content…
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Complete small business infrastructure setup solution

BACKGROUND: I am in charge of maintaining the infrastructure of a small (<25 users) family owned business. Here's the setup we currently have. EMAIL SERVER: I started out using one ISP provided email with one outlook express, to using shared…
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DIY Linux email journalling system

I need to journal all incoming and outgoing emails. Currently emails are relayed by Edge transport server to Exchange 2010 email store. I'd like to stick a linux server in-line with an MTA. It would archive locally then relay to the Exchange…
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Splitting an archive on multiple media

I'm generating archives which are larger than my current physical media ( DVD ). I'd like to split those archives: automatically - instead of generating mini-archives by hand; consistently - so that an archive can be extracted independently of…
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How to write robust automation scripts for large scale data management?

I have been needing to automate the moving of quite large amounts of data (possibly around 1TB/day+ in average. 60TB so far, and counting) to a separate, remote storage system. I have so far been doing this by writing custom python code, because of…
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How to sync Mails from Server to Backup with only the latest Mails remaining on the Server

At the moment i do a simple Mail-Backup: On the server there is a Maildir, and i use rsync to sync the Maildir from server to backup. So i delete on the Server every file which is older than i.e. one month. So i have only the latest mails on the…
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Image archiving on network folders

Our company uses Symantec Enterprise Vault to archive network folders and files, presumably to save on disk space. I can't see any other benefits. Our company is an architectural firm, and the problem our users face is locating particular images in…
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Linux: How do I archive select file extensions in an unknown tree

What is the best way to archive select file extensions in an unknown tree. I cannot use exclude options in tar/gzip/rsync as it would be impossible to exclude all possible extension variations. Example to backup all .foo and .bar files in a…
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gnome file roller never overrides existing files

When using gnome file roller (Archive manager), it never seems to overwrite existing files, independent from access rights. There is also no error message. Is this expected functionality?
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