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Duplicating a thing to make two similar things.

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Long 'pause' after copying large files on windows 2008

I have a mystery regarding pauses after file copies on windows server 2008 (and other releases) When copying large files, like vhds, to locally attached USB disks I often see a long pause after the copy has completed 100%. As an example:…
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how to copy sql server database on same server

I've got a SQL Server 2008 and want to make a copy of a database so I've got a 2nd Version of the database for testing on the same server. The database copy wizard is not able to copy the database, it always sends funny error Messages about missing…
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LVM2: How to copy snapshots?

I read What does an LVM2 Snapshot contain? and LVM Snapshot confusion. What I'm trying to figure out is if there is a way to create a copy of an LVM snapshot for use with different Xen VMs. I know that it isn't built into LVM (yet), but I was…
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Under Linux, how do I copy files from one filesystem to the other (both gpfs) and preserve hard links?

I have a directory with huge files and a number of directories, that have hardlinks on these huge files. How do I copy files from one filesystem to the other and preserve hard links?
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Copy files from one server to another with same permissions

Im migrating to new server and i need to move few websites but i need to have same read/write permissions to new serves as they were on old server. I don't need to keep group and owner id's same but it would be very hard if i have to go through all…
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Copy entire filesystem in a folder where a raid-1 array is mounted

I am trying to migrate from a single disk drive system to a double disk drive software raid-1 system that already has a running system on it. Meaning that formatting and having a new installation of ubuntu using raid-1 is NOT an option. In this…
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Linux Shell - How to copy directory without symlink

I would like to get everything inside one directory. How can I copy entire directory (that originally contains files and symlinks) to a new directory that should contains all files but no symlink?? Thank you
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What's faster, cp -R or unpacking tar.gz files?

I have some tar.gz files that total many gigabytes on a CentOS system. Most of the tar.gz files are actually pretty small, but the ones with images are large. One is 7.7G, another is about 4G, and a couple around 1G. I have unpacked the files once…
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Copy files over network

we use one windows 2003 server to sync files between two other windows servers. I assume that the whole traffic goes through the server initializing the sync. If so, is there a way to trigger a copy between the 2 other machines without routing all…
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Robocopy copies folders but not files

I'm using robocopy on a Windows Server 2008 R2 SP2 machine with the following options: robocopy W:\ E:\old_files\daten1\ /R:1 /W:1 /MIR /COPYALL /ZB /DCOPY:T /MT 50 /LOG:E:\old_files\copy_w.txt robocopy copies all of the folders, but at the…
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copy directory including 'base' folder

I need to copy folderA into folderB via the command line: c:\temp \folderA \folderB should become c:\temp \folderA \folderB\folderA That is, exactly the same as if you copied folderA using windows explorer and…
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What is the efficient way to backup large files?

I have the schedule job of backing large files in Windows Server and it takes almost 2 hours to finish. For now, I only use copy command in the .bat and copy the large files to another folder. I'm wondering whether there is more efficient way than…
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rsync not working - want to copy only certain subdirectories and files

Hi let's say I have a directory like this: / my_work /dir1 keepdir1.ddd keepdir2.ddd file.cfg (lots of files and directories I don't want) …
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Microsoft Terminal Server clipboard corruption

I've got a client running Terminal Server 2008 R2, connecting from Windows XP terminal services client (not sure of the local RDP version, I think they've got all their service packs though) and whenever they copy text from the terminal server and…
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Copy File to Clipboard

Simple Question that I just realized would be very useful. Under Linux (or really any 'nix environment) is it possible from the command line (or by other fashions, but primarily command line) to copy a file to the clipboard? Any example of this…
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