Questions tagged [mirror]
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What does that mean: packages excluded due to repository priority protections
When updating with yum i recieve the following message:
yum update
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, priorities
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
* atomic: www7.atomicorp.com
* base: mirror....
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How can I limit the bandwidth of apt-mirror?
I need to make a once off mirror of all the Ubuntu apt repository (for the record it's because I'm sending it to Kenya (see here and here).
I did it before and used apt-mirror, and that does exactly ...
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wget recursive download, but I don't want to follow all links
I'm trying to mirror a website using wget, but I don't want to download lots of files, so I'm using wget's --reject option to not save all the files. However wget will still download all the files and ...
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linux LVM mirror vs. MD mirror
I think I remember making some mirrors years ago with LVM, and I don't remember this "log" thing. Or maybe I made the mirror with mdadm and put LVM on top. That must be it.
What is the LVM log for if ...
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Adding more mirrored vdevs to a ZFS pool on Ubuntu
I'm on Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS and I have a ZFS pool named unas containing two mirrored drives. I have now attached two more drives and I want to add these new drives to my unas pool as a pair of mirrored ...
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Faster way to mirror a FTP site
I am currently using wget -m to mirror a remote FTP but the speed suck, what are the good alternative (command) so we can parallel to download in order to boost the speed up?
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CentOS - Yum - Specify Mirror
Is it possible to specify a mirror for YUM to target when doing updates? I've noticed on my CentOS 6.2 servers that it takes up to a minute for YUM to respond from a given command. I did some Googling ...
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improving rsync backup performance
What are the best techniques to improve rsync over ssh mirroring between unix boxes, assuming that one system will always have the master copy and the other system will always have a recent copy (less ...
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Is there a way to mirror two severs on Ubuntu?
I was wondering if it's possible to mirror two servers, like you could upload files to one server and they'd push to the other server, etc. I'm more curious to file mirroring, it doesn't have to ...
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Copy (sync) timestamps only of already copied files and folders in Windows
I have problem with lost timestamps ( creation date ) on files copied using Total Commander - only modification date remained. It's hundreds thousands of files and few TB of data, so I prefer not to ...
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How to get robocopy summary information involved in powershell?
I have a quick script written to compare file differences across servers, and then give a prompt for whether to mirror the changes. I'd like it to intelligently NOT prompt for copying if there aren't ...
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How to add more physical disks to a mirror vdev (to increase redundancy)?
Can more physical drives be added to mirror vdevs after a zpool has been created?
For example, if a zpool is created using:
zpool create test_pool mirror /dev/sd0 /dev/sd1 mirror /dev/sd2 /dev/sd3
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debian mirror : Hash Sum mismatch
I have a mirror server that I maintain in school.
$ uname -a
Linux CSE-Cloud01 4.0.0-1-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.0.2-1 (2015-05-11) x86_64 GNU/Linux
$ sudo apt-get update
......
W: Failed to fetch ...
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How to implement partial mirroring in nginx?
I want to test an early new version of a server, and to do so I want to mirror part of the real requests that come to the production server on my testing server.
The mirror module allows me do to ...
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Maintenance plan for SQL Server Database Mirroring
We're using SQL Server database mirroring and we're trying to create a db maintenance plan to backup the database. The problem is that when the server is not the primary database the plan fails. I was ...
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Can ZFS mirror a single disk pool automatically? [closed]
I'm getting ready to add another server to my home network. I currently have one storage drive for it. I want to add another one to mirror the first drive, but can't purchase the second drive for a ...
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How do I set up a private mirror server for Cygwin?
I want to download all of the cygwin files for a computer that is not connected to the Internet. I know I can download all of the cygwin files with rsync, but I'm not quite sure of the right ...
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Best way to clone a Linux system
I've just finished setting up a Debian system running on an embedded device. It has custom partitioning, numerous config file changes, web content, and a couple of applications compiled from source.
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How can I get "mirrored from" on a GitHub repo?
I noticed that https://github.com/apache/ant says "mirrored from git://git.apache.org/ant.git" (with a link) and I'd like to do the same.
https://exyr.org/2011/git-mirrors/ seems like a good write up ...
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Mac OS X Server 10.6 - Apple's software mirrored RAID worth it?
I am installing an Intel Xserve (Quad core Xeon) with Snow Leopard Server (10.6) on two 80Gb 7200rpm SATA HDs.
I created a mirrored RAID set using Disk Utility with those two drives, all went fine.
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HW RAID 1 different disk sizes?
I was told by an HP support guy that I should not replace a failed drive in a mirror with a bigger size drive, since it could crash my array.
I am puzzled why is this so and how to hell am I suppose ...
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fastest backup for large files
what is the fastest way to duplicate a folder contain few files with few hundred megs size and other few megs small files? (say, /var/lib/mysql)
cp or tar or rsync or...??
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SQL Server Patching a Mirror configuration
We're planing to have two SQL servers updated by synchronous database mirroring. This will include a third environment configured as a witness server.
For standard windows patching - what order ...
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Tips and tricks for identifying the dying hard drive
I have a raid 1 that has failed partially. The controller tells me the raid is degraded, but does not tell me which drive is failing.
When I look in My Computer, I see that the controller split my ...
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"wget --mirror" Alternative
I'm looking for an alternative to using this, it doesn't have to use FTP, but it should provide the same functionality as the "--mirror" option of wget where it only downloads new and changed files.
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Easiest way to change default mirror of an Ubuntu ISO
What is the easiest way to "patch" an Ubuntu ISO so that the default mirror is different?
Details:
We're behind a proxy so upon initial installations, the process isn't able to the see the mirror
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DPM 2010 iSCSI Mirror
We're using DPM 2010 for exchange backups,
The backup Disk(s) are iSCSI attached drives from multiple NAS boxes.
We'd like to mirror iqn.2009-07.com.example.example:RAID.iscsi4.vg0.iscsi05 onto iqn....
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Terrible (~1.4x vs expected ~2x) random read performance in new ZFS mirror (raid1)
I am testing a ZFS mirror using FIO (Flexible I/O tester) to understand the random read scalability of ZFS mirrors. The primary and secondary caches have been set to none as the application I use ...
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Is it possible to mirror a MediaWiki article from another wiki?
I have two MediaWiki installations on two different domains, both on the same server but with different databases.
Is there a feature or extension that will allow me to automatically mirror the ...
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Distributed mirrored filesystem under FreeBSD
Can someone share their experience in building a distributed mirrored filesystem between multiple FreeBSD machines? I. e. we have two (three, four...) servers and special partition "part1" mounted on ...
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Error when add mirror in disk management window server 2012
I have a problem when add mirror in disk management window server 2012
The problem is:
The operation failed to complete because the Disk Management console
view is not up-to-date. Refresh the view by ...
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SQL Server 2005 Mirrored DB Recovery
Scenario:
We want to use SQL Server 2005 Standard's version of DB mirroring along with a witness server in an Active Directory domain environment. The database is fed from a 3rd party app server that ...
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Alternative to robocopy /MIR
We run a number of web apps that store a lot of local data in small xml files.
One part of our backup / recovery strategy is to produce a local mirror of the file system via a VPN to the hosting ...
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Using exotic setups to maximize capacity (when using different sized disks) in ZFS raidz
I have 2 x 4TB disks and 3 x 6TB disk which I want use with ZFS. My objective is to maximise the usable storage space whilst allowing for a single disk failure.
Ideally a raidz setup would be used ...
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Windows Updates mirror for ISPs
I work in a ISP where bandwidth is limited. We want to provide our customers a mirror for windows updates, so we can save bandwidth and provide to our customers a faster connection.
How can we ...
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Mixing drive vendors in RAID mirror
Background
I'm building a simple storage server for home usage, and I'm modelling it slightly after our Solaris storage servers at work. But at a smaller scale. The basic layout will be a chassis ...
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Linux Raid: mystical md_d device
I have a 64bit Ubuntu Jaunty server (kernel 2.6.28-17-server) installed on two SATA disks (sdc and sde) in a mirror RAID, this being my current raid configuration:
cat /proc/mdstat
Personalities : [...
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Btrfs Raid10 Two drives have failed. What are my options?
Here's my story: I noticed read errors on one of my four RAID10 Btrfs drives (/dev/sde). This occurred when I was attempting a backup using btrfs send/receive.
I bought a new hard drive of the same ...
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How do I use git-push --mirror with git-shell in SSH?
I am attempting to setup a mirror-to-backup hook in our repositories. The hook is executing a git push --mirror backup@server:path/foo.git. However it fails stating:
fatal: What do you think I am? A ...
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Can I effectively clone my hard drive by using mirrored partitions in Win Server 2008?
I have a server running Win Server 2k8 R2 Foundation, functioning as a basic file server and CAD software licensing server, with the following situation:
Originally installed with 2x 250GB physical ...
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Windows Server 2008 x64 SP2 software mirror raid recovery when primary drive fails
I'm attempting to use software mirroring to move the system partition between different hardware raid arrays. Unfortunately, whenever I pull the primary disk offline, I'm not able to get the boot ...
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Can one SSD replace a pair of mirrored drives?
I have various firewall/router/utility type boxes that do not require much if any storage for their primary purpose other than booting. But I do like to be able to put a more or less standard CentOS/...
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FTP an entire folder via the command line
I'm looking so migrate some websites to a new server.
I have SSH access to the current one but only FTP access to the new one.
How can I via Centos and SSH copy entire folders to the new server via ...
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How do I mirror a folder (copy only missing and changed files recursively) in windows?
I'm trying to find a fast way to recursively update a folder and all subfolders from another folder. Obviously, a full delete and Xcopy would work but that is very slow.
After the update, the ...
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Mirroring an Apache server
I have a few named vhosts on my apache2 debian server and I want to have a mirror server that can pickup as soon as the first server goes down. We can assume I have total control over both servers and ...
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Mirror directory, only purging files in destination directory older than 7 days
I would like to mirror a directory, but only delete files in the destination directory older than 7 days.
Situation:
- Directory A is mirrored to Directory B.
- A file from Directory A is deleted
I ...
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OS X: setting display resolution and mirroring
How do I have a projector machine always mirror at 1024x768? By default new users get 1920x1200 and non-mirrored.
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Mirroring live system - what are the options
What are my options to mirror a running system (without taking it down) to have an as close as possible copy for use as a XEN guest?
Now I'm planning to install the same version of OS as domU and ...
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Ubuntu Preseed not using local mirror
I have a full ubuntu mirror located on the server
http://leelah.home.ianwilson.org/ubuntu/
In my preseed.cfg file, I have the following d-i config for selecting my country mirror:
d-i mirror/...
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Can't serve static files with ampersand in name
I have a website mirrored with wget and I'd like to serve it via Apache. The problem is that I can't access files with special chars. For example, I have files with names like this:
$ ls -N components/...
