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zip files before copying from Windows Server

20,000 small files takes forever to copy. Is there an easy way to zip files on a Windows Server before copying to a client desktop? It must be simple enough for a novice user to do it from the client computer.
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Copy directory structure on top of another

I would like to move a directory and all its contents ontop of another. By this I mean, that if I have two directories, A and B and I want to move B onto A, I want files and directories that are not in A but are in B to be simply copied across to…
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GPO to copy a file to C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office16

I need to copy (MSCAL.OCX) a file to the same directory as MSACCESS.exe for my application to work. I used this as a tutorial http://kunaludapi.blogspot.com/2015/08/copy-files-on-all-computers-using-group.html but for whatever reason, the OCX file…
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Copy multiple files from different folders to 1 folder

i'm looking for a sollution to copy multiple files from different folders to 1 folder. What I have is that I need to copy files from c:\Customers\folderA\folderB\files copy to e:\FolderB\files The problem is that the "Customers" everytime is…
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1GBit copy throughput, protocol independent

I've a question which bothers me since quite some time now. I have several environments and servers. All of them are connected to 1 Gbit ethernet swiches (e.g. Cisco 3560). My understanding is, that a 1 Gbit link should provide 125Mbyte/s - of…
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Copy files limited to 50GB or so?

Several times I have tried to copy a vhd file from one HDD to another one colocated in the same physical box and connected to the same motherboard. GUI drag and drop, Powershell, copy and paste - all of these methods stop copying after about 50GB of…
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copy a folder under linux server to windows server

I need to find a way to transfer the daily backup folder of my Debian server to a Windows server weekly. What would be the easiest and most stable way to achieve this? Would I definitely need a Samba installation on my Debian server?
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Copying files with permissions

We have a new Windows 2008 server and want to transfer over our old files. Tried using Robocopy with /E /SEC /COPYALL, but did not do anything, RichCopy copies the files between the computers but does not maintain the permissions. Any ideas?
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Copy programs from one disk to another

I wish to copy all data and progams from one disk (disk 1, e:) to another disk (disk 2, f:) and then rename the drive letter of disk 2 to e:. Will the programs which i copied from disk 1 to disk 2 continue to work if i do this? Current…
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why copying take too long from my server to External drive

I don't understand why copying 244 GB of data from a Window server would be copying at the rate of 10.49KB/sec. The server RAM is 48 GB, Processor 2.19GHZ and hard drive of 1.75TB out which 491GB is free. I am copying sqlserver backup files using…
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SQL Server 2005: Copy database failing with unhelpful error

> Event Name: OnTaskFailed Message: > Operator: ***\administrator > Source Name: > ***_Transfer > Objects Task Source ID: > {9135C978-DD50-4418-A843-7E8FCE455181} > Execution ID: > {F6819FBA-4258-4723-B87D-525F1CF0673B} > Start Time:…
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Robocopy to copy each source subfolder to different destination folder

I have a folder structure like this: Source C:\Data Data1_timestamp Data2_timestamp Data3_timestamp Data4_timestamp Destination D:\Data Data1 Data2 Data3 Data4 Is it possible to use…
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Download big files from ESXi?

I want to move one of my vm guest between two ESXi servers. I can't do this with converter or Veaam FastSCP because I'm in another network and using this tools is extremly slow. So I'm trying to copy files from one scp to one of servers in the same…
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Windows SBS 2003 file transfers hang on write

CPU usage is ideal... as is everything else. It will start copying a file, say 700MB, then about 100MB in it will hang, and stop copying. It hangs for everyone else trying to access files on the server too. After about a minute it will come back to…
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Copying SQL Server 2005 Databases

We currently have a single SQL server (2005, on a Windows server 2003 machine) with 3 DBs on it that I would like to just straight copy so that I can run some test on them for an upgrade. I don't think I can do this with the copy DB wizard as I am…
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