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Transferring 87000+ files from one debian server to another efficiently?

I have two servers and need to copy 87000+ files from old server (Debian 9) to the new server (Debian 10), tried using sftp but the connection keeps getting dropped midway and it is taking too much time to transfer files (average file-size ~ 10MB).…
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Sending files from a TS server to a client workstation

Due to concerns with viruses, my boss wants to turn off the clipboard redirection on our TS/RDP servers - so that there is no possibility of copying files to the server. He does however, want to provide a way for our RDP users to copy/send pdfs and…
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Transfer files from a non-host machine to a docker container and vice versa

I have a running Ubuntu docker container on a Linux machine. I have a big difficulty everytime when I'm trying to copy a file to/from the docker container from my local machine. I have to copy the file to the host machine, and then run docker cp to…
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Sporadic mod_jk Client Errors when uploading large files

Note: There is a TL;DR at the end of this question. I have a nightly backup script that has been working reliably for 6 years, and two months ago, it began to fail to upload to my archive server (only about 1 in 4 attempts succeed). This started to…
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Managed Hosting vs Co-location

I am working on a project that will require for us to upload huge HD video files to a server. For simplicity, I was considering Managed Hosting at Rackspace with Cloud Files. However, the main work flow bottle neck would be the upload times. Our…
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How to verify checksum after copying 2 TB of 6 million files over USB?

I have a situation where I need to move over 2 TB of data from one server to another server in another data center. There are over 6 million files to copy. The plan is to move data in phases. For example, as the first phase, copy data older than a…
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How to track and log file transfers between Production and Non-Production environments?

We have a security/compliance audit that we are preparing for and since we deal with financial institutions, one of the potential flags mentioned was how we track/monitor files that are transferred between our Production and Non-Production…
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Download over remote root server directly to home system

I have to download some big data from a source that needs a static IP. As at home I only have a dynamic IP that won't work. So I thought about using my rent remote root server to download the data. But the data is so large that I can't use the root…
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How to allow "append only" (push) access from a remote server to a central server?

How to allow a remote server to push data onto a central server without having any other access. That is, how to allow the remote server to only append but not overwrite or read files on the central server? The reason for this is that the remote…
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Transfer 300+ GB at maximum speed on two headless servers?

I am currently trying to transfer over 300GB from my Mac Pro server to my Synology NAS. I only have my Windows PC I can work from, but I can SSH into both devices. They are both connected to gigabit ethernet, which I have tested and which works very…
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How to set up automatic atomic transfers over SFTP

I'm working on a personal project. Since I don't have to worry about working with others or deploying from a development environment to a production environment, I am simply modifying files on the server where I am serving my application. To do…
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FTP put several directories without overwrite?

I was transferring a few dozen gigs from one PC to another with scp. I got disconnected and double checked and found FTP to be faster (I scp only affected CPU to encrypt) How do I resume my file transfer? I want to copy all of my files recursing…
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How do I diagnose slow file transfers from NIC errors/collisions?

I recently attempted to transfer a 3 GB file to a machine on my LAN using rsync -azvP. I noticed I was only getting 50kpbs. Both switch ports are 100/full. When I do an ifconfig, here's what I get: eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr…
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What is the most efficient way to transfer files from AWS S3 to S3?

I have a large number of files stored in an AWS S3 bucket. I need to get those files to another S3 bucket owned by another user and in a different region. The files are stored in different locations within my S3 bucket--these keys (e.g. location1 &…
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What are the approaches to ensure bandwidth to a remote location?

Our file transfers have always been within our own network and it's been relatively easy to control QOS where we own the network equipment. But now, we are going to move one of our systems where we need to send files to up to a remote data center…
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