Questions tagged [file-transfer]
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Transfer a file from remote server A to remote server B from server C
I have an interesting problem I'm trying to solve. I have a JumpBox server that I have in order to securely ssh into client's servers. This is the only server my clients ever open up port 22 to. However, this JumpBox server is very small and does…

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What is the best way to move files to a remote Ubuntu web server?
What is the best way/tools to move files to a remote Ubuntu web server? Obviously a newbie question, but should I create a smb mount, use ftp, or ssh?

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Apache configurations for Reverse Proxy
I am about to setup a reverse proxy server to filter and log page requests before relaying the actual content from the origin server. (new to this)
Before this, I had the origin server public facing, and I had php5 configured to accept 20 Mb file…

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What is the best way to copy large files from my workstation to a Windows Server based EC2 instance?
I would like to know if there is a better way to transfer data from my workstation to my Windows based EC2 instance. Currently I am using remote desktop copy/paste, but that is a drag as I always forget that I have the "data" on my clipboard and…

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secure ftp to specific directory on Ubuntu?
can I set up
a secure ftp for somebody (not a current user on the system)
for 2 different directories on Ubuntu
inside public_html?
I don't want to give the user pure ssh account right now.
Any other upload,download,delete file secure way is…

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How can I transfer FTP to FTP?
How to transfer ftp to ftp ?
any direct ftp softwares to do this ?

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Simple Distributed Disconnected way to sync a directory
I want to start regularly backup my home directory on my ubuntu laptop, machine X. Suppose I have access to 2 different remote (linux) servers that I can backup to, machines A & B. Machine X will be the master, and should be synced to A and B. I…

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Efficient parallel file transfer between two hosts using mutliple 10GbE NIC ports
I need to regularly transfer large amounts (several TBs) of video files between two servers on a 10G network. I want to decrease the overall time it takes to finish the job.
I am running CentOS7. I have two servers (A and B) each having a 10GbE card…

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Best way to transfer about 200GB of files between two windows servers
The source server is Windows Server 2003 (a VM hosted in Xen).
Target is Windows Server 2016.
They're in different locations and the connection is roughly 30Mbit/s and they're both on the same vpn.
I need to transfer files from one to the…

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Copy large amounts of data from S3 Bucket to Bucket, different regions
Alright, so I'm setting up an off-site backup of my S3 data and have set up Cross-Region Replication to a new bucket in another region. However I have a lot of data in the original bucket which needs to be moved as well, >100TB in >20 million…

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CentOS 5.0 with Ligthttpd notices high traffic without reason
I have a CentOS 5 with Lightppd installed. Also I have MySQL on board. I lately discovered high traffic:
http://img686.imageshack.us/img686/8596/traff.jpg
Could you please tell me how to diagnose what is cause of this traffic? I didn't do anything…

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LINUX / WINDOWS - Strange behavior when transferring files
Question : How files transfer could be slow and normal at the same time ?
Transfer initiated from : Windows 7 computer on VLAN computer
Source : NSD share (samba from IBM GPFS) on VLAN server
Destination : Windows 7 computer on VLAN computer (the…

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How to Diagnose Strange Network Failure
This is a strange one. I have 2 remote networks that I transfer files between over the internet. Yesterday, a regular backup job failed, so I started looking into it. I have been transferring files between these two networks without issues for…

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Sync a folder on a remote UNIX server from Windows with rsync
I am trying to sync the contents of a directory on my Windos machine with a UNIX server.
I have spent a long while reading the rsync documentation and have come up with the following command:
rsync --progress -avzC --stats --force --dry-run -e 'ssh…

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Transfer files between servers using laptop as intermediary
I'm in a situation where I have a significant amount of data that I need to transfer from Server A to Server C. However:
Server A does not have network access to Server C
I have authority to SSH to both Server A and Server C
In order to SSH to…

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