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Questions tagged [copy]
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Using RoboCopy on multiple destinations with monitor option
I am trying to copy a shared folder which its content (folders and files) are created by a third party app at no specified intervals.
I need to copy these files onto two different server shares.
The way I have set it up is to run two different DOS…

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VMWare - transfer data store and compare copies
With ESXi, short of using the "hack" console, the only way I found to transfer files is with the VSphere client.
It appears we have several systems properly configured and running as VM's now. To back them up I shut down the VM's and did a copy of…

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rsync's list of files to transfer keeps going up
I'm copying some files locally from one directory to another using rsync, the options I'm using are -aPhW. The -P gives me a progress bar, and tells me how many transfers are left, such as (xfer#34171, to-check=851/35759). however that 35759 wasn't…

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copy files with folders
The following scp is working as expected.
scp /home/admin/* root@ec2-50-112-212-73:/
But I need a command that will create the required folder structure on destination server if it does not already exist.
Update:
I can do it in 2 steps as shown…

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Copy directory to external from corrup driver
i need help critical, rifht now a HDD in my server its corrupt, need to force fsck over the partition (ext2 ubuntu 8.10), but I need to extrack files before the command for secure reasons..
I get mounted the partition in a live CD, and mount a…

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How create ghost images and copy to many drives
I am looking for the cleanest and most reliable solution to create ghost images of a windows 7 based machine and copy these images to multiple hard drives.
I am looking for the software needed to create the image and hopefully some instructions on…

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Moving Large Files Between Servers
I NEVER have to do this. But I know its a common problem. Yet, I'm not sure how to tackle it. I have a server (Windows Server 2008) that I access remotely. This server is NOT on the same domain as my local machine. I need to copy a 700MB file from…

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Copying Centos to another server
I just did a fresh install of centos and spent ages adding all my standard libraries. Is there a way I can easily take a copy of this build and deploy to another new server?

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Clone Flash Drive in Linux using DD
dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb
I want to create a clone a bootable USB stick.
lets say sda is 2GB
sdb is 32GB.
The above line will create a replica but the usable size will be 2GB. How can I use the remaining 30GB? (resize partition or modify the…

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Database not browsable during COPY on PostgreSQL
When using COPY to restore a CSV file, phppgadmin shows that the real database size(4GB) but when I choose to browse the table it shows Estimated row count to 0. I did a VACUUM ANALYZE. simple SELECT queries returns 0 rows, but the database size is…

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ssl handshake failure with COPY on PostgreSQL
I'm restoring a CSV file to database with COPY command. The csv file is bziped. I use this command:
bunzip2 -c -d online-20110923000001.csv.bz2 | psql -U user -h 127.0.0.1 -d testdb -c "COPY data FROM STDIN WITH CSV HEADER;"
After some time it…

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USB stick unmounts itself, becomes unavailable ?!
On Centos 6, I am trying to copy some files from a Fat32 stick.
I do a "fdisk -l" then take that name and mount it with this command:
mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/usb
I see the files there (I didnt count them tough), then I try to copy them from stick to…

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How to use rsync to copy images and dir
I am in the middle of merging 2 directories into 1.
/competitions/1
/competitions/2
/competitions/3
/gallery/1
/gallery/2
/gallery/3
I want to copy all the files in /competitions to /gallery and put them in there respective folders. I can assume…

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How to copy a file with filename "+" and rename it?
I have a file named +13x18_DSC_0800.JPG on a linux server (Please don't ask me how it got there as I have no idea how it got there). I wish to rename it to 13x18_DSC_0800.JPG. However I have not been able to. When I try to copy it I get ;
# cp…

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Powershell Copy-Item fails silently
I have a PowerShell 2.0 script running on Windows Server 2008 R2 64bit that copies some Hyper-V .vhd files to another server as a 'backup solution'.
The script gets a list of the .vhd's to copy then iterates over that list to copy them using…

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