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Sync OUs within Active Directory

I'm setting up two OUs in Active Directory to support a software package we're getting ready to roll out. One OU is for production, the other for training/sandbox. It is required that these be independent OUs in the same domain rather than…
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Large File Copy Tool accross Flaky Connection

I am looking to copy some large files accross a flaky WAN connection. Is there a tool I can use which will auto resume when the network fall over briefly and let me manually resume if I have to fix it manually?
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How can I set up a mirror site of PHP & MYSQL between two distant sites?

I have a site which is located in US and I want to set up a mirror site in China, the site is using PHP + MYSQL and the network quality between two servers is terrible. I tried set up a database-sync between two mysql databases but, there will…
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More efficient method to synchronize very large # of files

I have a large directory that needs to be synced from a local server to my web server and am looking for the most efficient method of doing this. This directory contains 113k files in 14k directories and is roughly 5GB in size. Local to remote…
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MacOS X 10.6 Portable Home Directory sync fails due to FileSync agent crashing

On one of our cleanly installed MacPro machines running MacOS X 10.6.6 connected to our MacOS X 10.6.6 Server, syncing data using Portable Home Directories fails. It seems to be due to the filesync agent crashing during the home sync. We get -41 and…
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Is it really necessary to call /bin/sync twice before an unmanaged power-off?

My company sells an "embedded device" which is implemented as a headless Linux box with ext4 on an internal SSD. Some of our users have a habit of doing a "save current settings" on this box, and then cutting power to the unit as soon as the unit…
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Lab User Accounts

I work for a school division (K-12). While I am most interested in what works well on the Mac, Windows and Linux administrators must face the same issue and have analogous solutions. Most of our computer in a given lab are roughly identical…
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MySQL replicate structure only

Can I set up MySQL as a slave only replicating structure changes? (CREATE / ALTER TABLE etc.). I've got 2 reasons for this: Multiple developers with development branches in code which should always work with a 'fresh' datastructure, fetched from a…
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Synchronizing Evolution Email Inboxes Across Multiple Computers

I'd like to synchronize evolution inbox across 2-3 computers without leaving messages on the server. Does anyone have any experience with this? I can't seem to find any way to do this by searching server fault or Google. What I've thought about…
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Finding a backup and synchronization solution

I'm having difficulties to find a backup and synchronization solution with the following characteristics: Cross-platform: Windows, Linux, Mac Transfer only new/modified bits of modified files Maintain multiple versions of files (even deleted…
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How to compare two IIS 6 configurations

When I have two different machines with IIS 6, let's say for testing and production: Is there a way to compare all settings (App-Pools, Web Service Extensions, ...)? Or even better: automatically sync both (except IP's etc.)
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SQL Server 2008 Replication & Sync Framework - Practical Limits

We are looking at hosting our client's data on our own system and using the MS Sync Framework to replicate data with a SQL Server instance on each client's site. Each client might have on average about 500MB of data and there could be up to 1,000…
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rsync: Remember copied files, even if they are deleted at the destination

I want to run an rsync job that copies data from A to B. The data at the destination will be deleted after processing. However, the processed data should no longer be copied. Is there a way that rsync remembers the deleted data on the target and…
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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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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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