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Safe to delete managed incremental snapshots on Azure?
Incremental snapshots of managed disks on Azure is a relatively new thing, and is not completely documented, so I have a crucial question:
If I have incremental snapshots A, B, C and D of a disk (the first one being an explicit full snapshot), and D…

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Low performance on file copy operations due large idle times (rsync, cp, ..)
I'm currently copying large directory tree from an external HDD to to internal storage of my server. The performance of the copy operation is basically quite good, i.e. 35MB/s with the external HDD connected via USB2.
However, I only get this…

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Trying to speed up copying some Sql data files between two VM Data Disks
I need to move my Sql Server data from the existing Azure data disk to a new one. When I try and copy the existing files from the 'old' Disk over to the 'new' Disk it says it will take about 10 1/2 hours. URGH. That seriously hurts.
Yep - the…

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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 provide a way for our RDP users to copy/send pdfs and…

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copy folders from one team project to another
i have one TFS server, with 4 team projects in it. i want to copy folders of of one team project into another team project.
here's the tree -
TFS(Server)
|___ A1(Team project1)
|___ A2(Team project2)
|______________(Folder1)
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seena
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Copying a file from windows 10 desktop to Azure VM
I need to copy a relatively large file (3GB) onto an Azure VM from my local Windows 10 desktop. I believe people using Linux can use rsync, but how can I do this from Windows 10?

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Copy a file to multiple windows machines
How can one copy a file, from his windows computer, to a cluster of multiple windows machine, with one command?
I thought about using psexec, but that also tries to execute the file...

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How to copy a file in PowerShell while it is in use?
I need to copy a log file from a remote windows 2012 server. The log file will be written to constantly by our application. I know how to copy a remote file using Copy-Item Cmdlet. But I get error saying that cannot access the file, because it is…

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How to full copy the C:\Windows folder?
I have a question about cmd - robocopy, on my server.
Is it possible to use that command as a way to emergency backup all files from C:\Windows? I am going to do some Windows Server Updates, and I have to save system catalogue in a way like it is.…

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Migrate over 1 million file with ~150 GB from 1 server to another
Tell me Guys, how would you transfer more than one million files, witch have a summarized size of about 150 GB from A servers (KVM) VM to another (let's call it B, XenCenter) servers other VM in maximum 2 days?
Currently I'm trying to compress them…

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powershell copy-item public desktop access denied
Below is the powershell script I am running, I am a local administrator on the workstations in the PClist.txt and I have the modify right on the share location. When I run it I get the following error:
copy-item : Access to the path…

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Copy-paste heredocument into Bash converts tabs into dots
I use Windows 10 home (build 16299.248) and I'm SSHing into a remote Ubuntu 16.04 machine with various SSH clients (like Putty/MobaXterm).
I copy-paste the following code from my personal GitHub account into an SSH session:
cat <<-EOF >>…

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Prevent users copy files to C drive
I'm working on a VM-based desktop solution, and one of the requirements is to restrict normal users from running specific programmes, such as putty.
I've explored the GPO methods -- "blacklist" mode could be easily cracked if a user is smart enough…

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GPO copy file task does not work into roaming folder
We created a GPO task to copy a file from our share(\\SRV01\Datastore\Team\Shared\TEST_Addin.xlam) to the user's roaming folder (%AppData%\Microsoft\AddIns\TEST_Addin.xlam). On this shared location everyone has access and the GPO is enabled in a…

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Copy files from /var/www/html while they are used by nginx
I have a lot of data in /var/www/html.
It's more than 2GB.
Now I have the possibility to host the website on the host (nginx is using /var/www/html) or I can use docker.
For the user of docker I am copying the content of /var/www/html to another…

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