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win2003 way to copy folders in a smart way?

I have 2 folders, the first: C:\folder1 C:\folder1\subfolder\a.txt C:\folder1\subfolder\b.txt and the second: C:\folder2 C:\folder2\subfolder\a.txt I would like to merge them like so: C:\folder2 C:\folder2\subfolder\a.txt (folder 2's…
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copying large directory with cp fills memory

We are using rsnapshot for backups. It uses hard links to efficiently store unchanged files, and rsyncs the changed files from servers. The hard linking part calls a command like this cp -al /current /old But this process uses up ALL the…
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Copying files locally on a network folder

I noticed that copying a large file from one location on a network drive to another location on the same network drive takes much longer than copying it locally. Instead of copying the file locally, the network computer sends the file to my remote…
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Windows server - moving to new server with AD

I want to add/copy users on new server with AD from server without AD ( Windows 2012). What is recoomended scenario ?
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Server 2008R2 copying big files freezes in the middle

Copying a big file (5GB or more) from a UNC path to a local disk freezes/stops more or less in the middle of the process. There is no way to cancel the task (if I try to do it it wall just go on the endless "cancelling" mode), the only way to stop…
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How to copy a file to common desktop (how to address common desktop) with Group Policy?

Using Group Policy Object > User > Preferences > Windows Settings > Files I can copy a file to user desktop using a target file name like this: %USERPROFILE%\Desktop\targetfile.txt. Now I'm trying to do similar task, using Group Policy > Computer >…
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dd vs. dd pipelined: which is better?

Here I read, in the comments, that a guy got more performance when used dd in pipeline for a copy. Like for example: dd if=in | dd of=out instead of dd if=in of=out Is it really faster? Why? Also: he talked about symmetric and asymmetric copying.…
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Very slow network copy from windows 7 to windows 2008 r2 server

I am having an issue where users have started to experience very slow transfer speeds both to and from my Dell server. When I say started, the only thing that has changed is that as of Sunday, we moved a share (about 360 gig) from an older server to…
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Network Traffic flow

Let's say I copy a network folder(Machine A) contents to another(Machine B) and I do this copying operation on a different machine (Machine C). How does the traffic flow? Does the data flow from Machine A to Machine B directly? or does it go through…
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Copying a large file causes thrashing

I've seen the related questions, and they don't provide answers. I'm running Windows Server 2008, Service Pack 2, 64 bit, on quad-core servers with 32 GB of RAM. I regularly work with files that are 100 GB in size, and I've run into a rather odd…
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Network Copying Query

I have a Windows 2003 SBS server running on a DL380 with 2 LAN cards as follows: 192.168.2.2 = LAN 100mb / 192.168.10.1 = copy subnet 1000mb I have a Windows 2008 standard server running on another DL380 with 2 LAN cards as follows: 192.168.2.3 =…
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Webmin Cluster Copy Protocol

Just toying with a clustered server farm for fun (as you do) and experimenting with Webmin and its 'clustered' modules. It has a feature that can copy files from one server to another on a repeating basis. Does this feature/module use cron jobs and…
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Whats the best way to shuttle large files between many servers?

Im currently using scp, but it seems to become slower and slower every day. Im up to 30 servers, and I need to shuffle around 3-5k files per day, with the average size of 200-400MB. I used rsync before also, with even more pitiful results. Each…
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Copying mounted/used big file

Do you know any Linux app which is able to copy mounted/used file? Similar behaviour to rebuilding RAID1 array - you can use master drive, while the second is rebuilding/mirroring content from the master drive. I have 500GB file which is mounted and…
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Get-ChildItem | Copy-Item

Trying to decipher why the copy-item is not working as expected within my ps script. I am attempting to search my fileservers for any *.pst files on all attached/valid drives, then copy those .pst files that were found to a different share…
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