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Most effective backup software for linux -> linux when dealing with large numbers of files
I have two NASes.
I work off of one, and the other is used as a backup. As I have it set up now, it's slow. Running a backup takes a week.
Even for 7 TB, with 1,979,407 files, this seems a bit ...
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clonezilla moving to bigger harddrive
I successfully cloned my hard drive from 250gb to 1Tb using -k1 on expert mode.
but when I explore the folders, why is it still acting like a 250 gb hard drive. It is still showing that 180gb ...
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Operating system and disk format for a home server
I have a Sun Ultra 24 that I am using as a home server, with 2x 1TB SATA drives, and two other drives for my OS and miscellaneous files. Eventually, I will replace those with 1TB SATA disks as well. ...
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Unable to establish connection to server
Working in CentOS. Want to have drag-and-drop SCP access to another system.
Opened up the file manager (nautilus) and went under File -> "Connect to Server". Filed in the information, hit connect. ...
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centos Screen - command detached process
Screen supports externally controlling a detached screen with the -X parameter, for example:
screen # -X -p0 "quit"
That will terminate the screen where # is the screen PID. However what I want to ...
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symlink and sudo executable
If I have the below sudoers entry
usera ALL=(userb) NOPASSWD: /home/userc/bin/executable-file
usera ALL=(userb) NOPASSWD: /home/userc/bin/link-to-another-executable-file
When I log-on as usera and ...
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Linux: Can't overwrite files on samba store
I'm using CentOS 5.5 with smbclient 3.0.33-3.28-el5 (latest version in repo), and I can't overwrite files in my Samba store.
I am not the admin for the Windows server that hosts the share, so there ...
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Unable to start my linux (cent OS ) machine in run level 5
Suddenly my machine not working under run level 5 and it seems to be problem with xserver and it is saying that "in last 90 seconds xserver restarted 6 times and unable to start" and then just giving ...
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Writing a CPU/RAM usage log over a period of time to file on CentOS
I'm looking for an application or line of code that would let me observe a process, save the info in a number of variables, then put the gathered info on a file.
I've been trying with variations of ...
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Couldn't dual boot Vista and Centos 5.4
Today I have installed Centos 5.4 with dual boot with Vista. Everything was fine, but after testing Centos 5.4, when I tried to load Vista, it did not load. After selecting vista from grub menu, it ...
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CentOS 5 installation - GRUB installed on USB drive
I installed CentOS via unetbootin and USB stick. Unfortunately, I can not now start my system w/o my USB usb drive.
Can someone provide me with some information how to fix this?
Thanks.
John
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Problems with Xen installation
I have CentOS 5.4 installed.
Now I'm trying to install Xen with out connecting to Internet (I have any driver for modem, so I search on Inernet only from Windows).
All I have are 7 installation disks.
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Find where packages have been installed using rpm
CentOS 5.3
I have been installing some packages using
rpm -ivh package
However, I am just wondering what command I can use to find the path of where the packages are installed.
Many thanks,
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Bash Script Exits su or ssh Session Rather than Script
I am using CentOS 5.4. I created a bash script that does some checking before running any commands. If the check fails, it will simply exit 0. The problem I am having is that on our server, the ...
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Download specific kernels for distros
I am running CentOS 5.3. I am wondering where I can download the latest kernel for this distribution.
I went to www.centos.org but could see any kernel download only the complete distribution is ...
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