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Duplicating a thing to make two similar things.

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RSYNC from remote to local excluding folders

How can I download from a remote server to local excluding folders or files? I have used something like this but the exclude doesn't work... rsync -avr -P -e ssh --exclude=/path/to/exclude/* user@ipaddress:/home/path/to/copy…
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Remotely copying files from WebDAV server?

My iDisk is about to expire, and I can access it through the WebDAV protocol. I own my own server, and I know it's possible to access my iDisk through WebDAV. I was wondering how I would go about initiating a transfer from a WebDAV-based server to a…
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Copy files from SVN server to external server via FTP

Currently I have about 5 servers, one I would like to use as a SVN server for development reasons, but I want it to be able to update the external server such as copying committed files to the external server via FTP (or any securer…
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Copy whole files only

Is there any way to copy directory from one filesystem to another but remove the partial file in case we run out of disk space on target filesystem? I searched cp and rsync manuals but did not find anything; I could do this in a shell script but…
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Raw copy with sector precision on windows

Is there some program for windows that is able to do what dd does in linux out of the box? I need to copy from a file to a physical disk in raw mode where I need to define offsets for input and output. So for dd, I'd need to use the seek and skip…
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Linux Server user copy

Is there a way to copy user list (with data and passwords) from one server to another. We have two servers and one of those is new. I need to create same users (that exist in /home/) and set same passwords (if possible) sure /home/ dir will be…
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move/copy file using an ftp server

Is it possible (and how) to copy a file on a remote machine to a different place on the same remote machine using FTP?
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Windows file copy - intermediary

I can't seem to find an answer to this anywhere. If I want to copy a file from \\server1\ to \\server2\, is it faster to RDP to that machine and do the copy there? If I initiate the copy from my desktop, is the data traversing the network twice…
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ROBOCOPY: Copy all subfolders+content without the content of the root directory

I'm trying to copy all subfolders with their content of a specific folder but I don't want to copy the files in the root folder. For example, if my folder look like: - root - file.txt - sub1 - another-file.txt - sub2 -…
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Duplicate user with all applications and settings - Windows Server 2012 R2

We are logging in to our Server with Remote Desktop (don't ask me why...we have our reasons...;-). Each time a new employee starts I have been re-installing applications and setting etc for them on the server, it takes a lot of time and I am sure…
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Log backup clashes with log rotation

On my servers I have log rotation and a backup script which, besides all, backs up the entire log directory. For log rotation I use logroatate on Linux and newsyslog is used on BSD. For log backup I simply cp -Rf /var/log/ /backups/ From time to…
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VMware NIC Teaming - How to gain more than 1Gbit/s copy speed between two VMs?

I have a question about VMware and NIC Teaming. Here is my easy test scenario. I have two VMs. VM1 and VM2. I want to copy 1 big file from VM1 to VM2 because I want to see that I can gain more copy speed than 1Gbit/s. But i can’t get more speed than…
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Robocopy Overwite IDENTICAL files but Rename Similar Files

Run-down 1: We need to copy files from one folder into another folder - Folder A -> Folder B (while preserving subfolder structure) 2: Some of the files in Folder A are IDENTICAL to files in Folder B 2a: IDENTICAL: Files that are identical in…
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ESXi 4.0 - cannot copy files

I am unable to copy files or make directories on my installation of VMWare ESXi 4.0. I have done so in the past (copied an iso onto a datastore). But something has changed and I have no idea what. I cannot copy using the datastore browser (get a…
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Is file copying limited by free space on C drive?

I have some Windows Server 2003 and 2008 boxes that have files I need to copy that are in the range of 20 GB to 80 GB ranges. The 20 GB files transfer without a problem from one server to another using UNC path. The 80 GB files do not. I get a…
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