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Duplicating a thing to make two similar things.

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Copying File into hidden folder

I'm attempting to copy a URL link for our companies library system onto all users workstation desktops. I've tried creating a shortcut via Group policy: User Configuration > Preferences > Windows Settings > Shortcuts however from what I can tell,…
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fastest way to mirror a directory containing millions of small files

I need to copy a 700G ISCSI mounted folder to a folder on the local hard drive, while maintaining the existing permissions and ownership. The data in the folder consists of about a million mostly small files, and the new directory needs to exactly…
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Copy a SQL Server DB to an external HD

I found a lot of similar questions in the archives, but none quite answered this. I need to copy a database from one server (SQL Server 2008) to another. Each server is in its own system, and no computer can connect to both servers. My original…
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How to effeciently copy large amount of data dvd's to disk?

Anyone have an ideas on how to copy many dvd's to disk effeciently? Currently we are inserting each disk individually and copying them then un-mounting them, inserting the next disk and so on. Ideally, we could buy a device with multiple cd-roms.…
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How to make a byte for byte copy of a drive?

Possible Duplicate: Using DD for disk cloning What's the easiest and most reliable, risk free, way of making an exact copy of a hard drive? We have a drive that's been messed up by someone re-initialising RAID on it and before we start playing…
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RCP (Remote Copy Protocol) in Ubuntu

On our Cisco-Routers we enabled RCP. Now we want copy all the running-config with our Ubuntu Server but I can't find any suitable command. I tried copying with rsync and cp but that did not work. Commands I tried: cp (IP):running-config rsync…
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Recommended Win2k8 Server software to fix my RAID-0 issue

I'm running an Asus P6T V2 Deluxe. It has six SATA ports and supports onboard RAID. I am using two of those ports for a RAID0 array of 1.5TB Seagate drives using the onboard RAID controller. One of them is giving me SMART warnings and I want to…
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Copying files from OSX to samba, force create mode not working

I have a problem whereby I have set up a samba share with these parrameters: [Design] path = "/sec/projects/design" writeable = yes browsable = yes valid users = @design force group = design force create mode = 0775 force directory mode = 770 When I…
Kerry Humphries
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Short Image Copying USB drives on Linux

Is there an application that will do a short image copy of a USB drive to another USB drive? I need something that doesn't run off a live cd
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Utility that use the bits service to copy files

I would like to know if there is a utility that uses the bits service, to help me transfer some large files over a wacky wan connection. These files happen to be available via a UNC share. Any suggestions? Thank you all.
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Slow file copy to Windows 2008 R1 file share

Looking for some help with a problem that has me at my wit's end - I've troubleshot this for days and cannot figure it out. All of a sudden, a few days ago, copying files from some of our Windows XP SP3 x86 workstations to one particular Windows…
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How to merge two files into single file using ansible in remote server

I need to merge two files without duplicate entries in it. is there any way i can achieve it through ansible modules. Ex i have two files /etc/hosts1 and /etc/hosts2. I need to have one /etc/hosts file with all entries present in both /etc/hosts1…
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Getting Linux copy to handle failing links

I just started using the nifty rsnapshot utility for backups to our NAS. I really like the tool (which uses rsync and links unchanged files to keep the backup size down), but I'm running into problems copying certain links, e.g: sudo /bin/cp -al…
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Make bootable Linux copy

I have specific Linux installed on SSD drive. What I want to do is to copy all ext4 partition files to other drive (also ext4) and make it bootable. Copy should be as similar as possible differentiating only in partition size and physical location…
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How to check: variable of function is it path to a folder or file on a remote server?

I need to use rsync or scp for copy file or file folder from remote server to computer. To copy (synchronize) a file folder I use the following function: foldertocomp() { rsync -avz pi@192.168.1.5:"'/home/pi/Torrents/$1'"/*…
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