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Duplicating a thing to make two similar things.

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Batch file problems

I have created a batch file to copy and zip up an entire drive of data on my server. I have selected the D:\ drive to be copied and zipped. However, I have one problem. When I run the batch file, only certain files from the D:\ drive are being…
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ntfsclone reports "Can't read sector at 470585344, lost data". How can I determine what file that is?

I used ntfsclone from ubuntu to copy a bad windows hard drive to a new one using: sudo ntfsclone --rescue -f --overwrite /dev/sda1 /dev/sdb1 which produces the following: WARNING: Can't read sector at 470585344, lost data. There's only about 70 of…
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How to upload (and measure) SFTP in parallel?

I've got a remote server that I can access via SFTP. (Not FTP over SSL. SFTP.) Periodically, I need to push a few thousand new files to that machine. How can I: Upload upload these in parallel? Gather statistics, so I can judge the ideal level of…
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RDP Clipboard File transfer in Windows Server 2008 R2

I don't like the "new" Feature in Windows 2008 R2. We had some Terminal servers used by a lot of users. If the User enables the Clipboard function in their Remote Desktop Connection, the user can copy a file from the RDP connection to their local…
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Batch change modified/created dates?

I recently bought new hard drives for my NAS. This means that I'm copying all the data off the NAS, upgrading it, and then moving the data back. I've gotten as far as copying the data from the NAS, but every file's modified/created date has been…
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cp: command not found

I have an shell file with the following contents: #!/bin/sh echo "enter code hereecho "Enter the site name, followed by [ENTER]:" read site_name mkdir -p /usr/local/xpay4$site_name cp /usr/local/xpay4/InitXpay4.jar…
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Are there alternatives to the "Copy Database" option on MSSQL Server Management Studio?

The reason I ask this is because it doesn't work. I haven't tried taking it offline yet because it is almost always in use. In the worst case I will attempt to take it offline and use "Copy Database" but I'm looking for alternatives first. We want…
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How do I copy one 500GB file from win2003 to lan/usb without impacting the source server?

I have to copy (periodically) a MSSQL backup file large 500 GB to another pc (windows or linux) within lan. The normal copy (or xcopy, robocoy, teracopy) command to a network share (or external usb disk) takes a lot of time (about 12 hours) and the…
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Bash Script to copy file across network unattended?

I would like to create a script that would execute a series of scp commands. This would pull a specific set of files from another computer on the network to a specific directory on the local machine. What are the authentication considerations of…
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Copying over 600GB from one windows 2003 ESX VM to another

I need to copy 650GB-isg from one VM to another both server instances are on a VMware ESX cluster and both run Windows server 2003 x86 (on the same LAN). One server is our file server and the other is where the data will be copied (daily) then…
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How to copy a LDAP entry and all the subtree on a Linux/openldap server?

I want to duplicate an LDAP subtree : my software uses ou=software,o=company,c=fr and I want to have version 2 of the software to use ou=software_v2,o=company,c=fr I tried JXplore to copy the tree, which is fine for the development server, but…
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Copying directories with subdirectories from QNAP NAS to Synology NAS

I have a QNAP TS-239 Pro NAS server, from which I need to copy a large number of files (>2 TB) to a Synology 409 NAS. I could do it with a Windows computer, but would prefer to do it directly from QNAP NAS without having to have a 3rd machine on.…
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How to trigger an event after saving a chosen csv file in Google Cloud Storage bucket

Trying to make a synchronous pipeline, I need to copy a csv file from Google Cloud Storage after it has been saved in Google Cloud Storage. The copy job does not have to be triggered right after the saving, it can also happen within some time frame…
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Linux cp specific files from a text list of files to subdirectories from a text list too?

I ask for your help to solve my problem because I am stuck. I explain the situation to you: I want to copy files whose path I have on a txt file in specific subdirectories specified in a second file (I also have a complete csv file including these 2…
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Server Load Spikes On File Copy -- Server Goes Unresponsive

This has been a problem that we've been battling for some weeks. Whenever large files are copied on the server (both with rsync and cp) the server load initially goes up to 6 or 8 and stabilizes. At some point in the copy load will spike out of…
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