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File transfer slows down the server response

We are on Win server 2003 and we transfer the files across the same intranet either using CuteFTP or through mapped drives. The problem here is the file transfers start fast and get slower as time progresses and has a great impact on CPU usage which…
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Initiating files transfer between servers with disowned bash script

To transfer files from remove server I need to first to log in to it with a password and then input the command, to get files to local folder and my terminal should be opened until this transfer will be finished. Is there a way to pass a public key…
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Ubuntu Replicate Files on Remote Servers

I have server 1 and Server 2. In step one there is one script running in server1 that generates one file, after the process of creating the file is finish I need to upload the file to Server 2. What is the best method and approach? Thanks, Pedro
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Rsync a directory from a local server to a remote server without losing permissions

I need to transfer a directory from my local server to a remote server on the exact same place on the remote server. In the directory, there are a lot of different users involved and I want to preserve those. What command do I have to use then and…
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Getting irregular timestamps on NFS file server

Here is the situation: We have a file server that is not saving timestamps to a small portion of its files (77 files out of several million). It instead writes a default mtime of 1969-12-31 19:00 (Unix epoch). When this does happen, it happens…
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Ubuntu Server crashes on file transfers

Upon transferring some files across server disks I lost connection and the server crashed. Plugging in a Screen showed no response at all. I had to reset the Server, which then boots normally. At first I thought it was Samba, but I verified today…
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How to speed up file transfer from server to server over the Internet?

How can I transfer a file from one server to another server with a great speed ? right now I am using FTP to transfer a file but it is taking so much time. To transfer a file of 2 GB its taking around 3 hours. Is there any other procedure to…
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Linux - regularily moving directory contents

Collaboration partners of our company will upload files (typically a few GB in size) to a directory on one of our external servers. From that directory, I will move them to our internal network, where they will be ultimately consumed by our…
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Moving a 13 gig file over sFTP (md5sum fails)

Each time I download a big file over sftp, the md5sum on the source machine doesn't match the md5sum I do on the destination machine. I have a 13gig file on an Ubuntu 12.04 machine with openssh-server running. I used FileZilla to download that file…
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Secure copying (file transfer) between two Linux servers in the same datacenter (Linode)

I have two Linodes in the same data center. I want to copy files from one to the other each night or on demand (for about the next month, until this project is finished). So I'm thinking about using rsync. My question is how do I set up the two…
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Whats the best way to file transfer my site from server to a newer one?

I have Windows 2003 server and i bought a new Windows 2008 server, i have more than 20 GB files want to migrate to the new server, i tried ftp, but its too slow.There are any better ways?
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Copying compressed files from Server 2008 R2 network share to XP client via VPN fails

At the first sight the question looks similar to this one. I have experienced an odd behavior while trying to copy a certain file from Windows Server 2008 R2 network share to Windows XP Professional client via VPN. The VPN was set up using RRAS on…
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Transfer files between Shared Hosting servers using FTPES

I have two shared hosting servers and a VPS. One at ixwebhostings with their panel and other is a cPanel hosting. I would like to move some files between these two. ixwebhosting supports FTP and cPanel supports FTPES only. and i have full root…
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Web server slow when transfering many images

Here is a little background of a intermittent but very real problem. I maintain a web application that is running on Esxi private cloud. We have a database server, and 4 web application servers. The 4 web application servers all have a very odd…
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Transferring 60GB of data over fiber connection - VPN connection times out

In an attempt to transfer a 60GB file (SQL database file) over the wire via a VPN connection, we're only able to get about 1/8 the file over. How can we get around this timeout issue? Or do we have ways to break apart the file into multiple…
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