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Virtual disk backup: rsync alternative?

We currently use rsync to backup virtual disks to another computer. Rsync is slower than direct copy, but overwrite only modified parts in the destination files. This allow to make snapshots to have backup history, so we have several weeks of…
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Get file system write cache queue size

I am copying a large amount of files from one server to another via robocopy to a UNC share. I notice that after robocopy completes that there is a large amount of disk activity that lasts for a while afterwards, the server is very sluggish at this…
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How does a file get sent over an HTTP connection?

A teacher of mine says when you are browsing a web server such as apache2 that has file/directory listing enabled then it secretly opens an ftp server to transfer the file. This confuses me, though he does know more than me when it comes to…
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Using torrent to share very large files

At our institute, we will soon need to routinely share large volumes of data (multi-terabyte range). Would it make sense to use BitTorrent for this task? How large of a CPU/memory overhead is to be expected, compared to common FTP servers? Is it…
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Why does my local network transfer speed decrease with larger files?

Short version: I have a Linux server (RHEL5) and a Windows 7 Professional laptop on a local wired network. Copying large files to the server gets gradually slower until it stops completely. Long version There is a Samba share on the server, which I…
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server 2008 to 2003 slow filetransfer using cifs

I just tried copying a file over cifs (windows file sharing) between a server 2003 R2 and a new server 2008 SP1 and I'm getting horrible speed. it's a 300MB file that is taking around 30 minutes to transfer. I'm getting around 1-2Mbit/s and this is…
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Increase data transfer speed through bonding/lacp?

I want to maximize the throughput of a data transfer between two servers. The copy will be made at the application layer using Robocopy. To clear things up, please check my Visio schema of the network: FS1---------(SW1)===========(SW2)---------…
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Moving file structure in Active Directory

I have recently installed a second Domain Controller in our Domain. Because our old file server is about to die from old age and dust. So my dire need is the knowledge on how to move the file structure from the old server to the new. With all the…
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Sharing large (multi-Gb) files with clients

I wasn't sure if this was the best place for this question, but I think it is squarely in the realm of the IT admin so that's the reason I put it here. We need to share large files (several Gigabytes) with external clients. We need a simple way of…
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How do I clone the contents of one hard drive onto another?

Can anyone recommend a different CD bootable utility I might try to clone a hard disk drive? I've so far failed to perform the seemingly simple task of cloning the contents from a small hard disk drive onto a larger one. Apparently Hitachi (target)…
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Transferring data from old dedicated server to a new one

I have a Windows 2003 dedicated server account with WebFusion and they are just awful, I'm not afraid to say. I would like to transfer to a GoDaddy Windows 2008 dedicated server in the next week or two , but struggle to see how we're going to…
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Why data sending is heavier for CPU than data receiving?

I have a Samba server configured in my PC. When other PCs in LAN download data from the server, top command shows smbd occupies 75% CPU. While they transfer data to the server, top command shows smbd occupies 30% CPU. I guess this is because for…
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How can I boost WiFi data transfer rate?

I have a wireless router that clients are using to have internet and file transfer in our company. The link speed is 54Mbit within all clients. But it seems that is impossible to exceed ~8 mbit which equals around 1MB/s How can there be that high…
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Network issue - Very slow while RXing but TXing is fine

I am trying to transfer a 10GB file to test my network. But when I transfer from Workstation 1 to Workstation 2, it takes 8 minutes (which is fine). But from Workstation 2 to Workstation 1, the transfer takes 50 minutes or so. Here is the…
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Windows 7 - Network File Copy Intermittently Fails During Upload to NAS

The client machine is running 64 bit Windows 7 and attempting to copy a relatively small file to our NAS device. The NAS device is a Lacie model running (I believe) some variant of Windows XP and has no permission structure aside from access/no…
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