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Questions tagged [synchronization]

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Synchronize with intelligent move and rename - windows

I'm looking to synchronize two windows folders over a wireless network. I'm currently using Syncback, but it doesn't seem suitable for large reorganisations over a slow network. i.e. if I move a folder and contents from one location to another on…
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Is there a free tool that syncs files in both directions, on a schedule?

We have a directory of files (about 4GB) - and we'd like to synchronise between 3 locations across the internet. However, we're very conscious about bandwidth, so we need the following features: Schedule when synchronising should occur (e.g. 6pm -…
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Master-Master File Sync between DataCenters

My problem is regarding a master-master (3 master nodes) file synchronization setup, where each node is in a different DataCenter. I have three application servers where users can create/modify/delete files and I need to keep them in sync, hopefully…
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Rsync over sshfs skips filenames starting with underscore

I'm trying to sync a directory tree from OS X (10.11) to Ubuntu 14.04. While most of the files get transferred just fine, files with names starting with _ (underscore) do not. Here is the command I use: rsync -rtvh --progress ~/Pictures/processed/…
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Internal Dropbox system

Is there a solution out there for a windows environment that would provide a two way, centralized sync between PCs? We have several PCs in our lab on which we need to automatically sync files across, while backing up the files to a centralized…
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Live file syncronization across multiple Linux servers with millions of files and directories

What is the best way to synchronize huge data of a running production server? Our server has over 20 million files (small files with 10k and bigger files up to 50MB) stored in 1 millon directories. The size of all data is about 5 TB (steadily…
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DRBD as DR: syncing datastores of 2 ESXI hosts, vmdk consistency?

does anyone have experience with using DRBD (protocol C) to sync parts of the datastores of 2 esxi hosts for disaster recovery of selected guests? I have 2-3 guests that should be able to recover from hardware failure of the host in as little time…
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Forward-sync to HDFS? (OR continue an incomplete hdfs upload?)

Anyone have a good suggestion for doing a forward sync to HDFS? ("forward-sync" in contrast to "bi-directional sync") Basically I have a large number of files I want to put into the HDFS. Its so large that I'll often, say, lose connectivity before…
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w32tm /resync not working instantly

This Question is mostly for other people to learn from and to satisfy my own curiosity if someone knows why it does the following. We had a problem with our DC not having the right time due to it being virtualized, that has since been fixed. But…
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csync2 ERROR: Connection to remote host failed

I was unable to find any articles to answer this question, so my best bet was to post this here: Scenario We have 2x application servers in production hosting a PHP website and I would like some folders to be syncronized between the 2, the same was…
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Copying/syncing email from a live server over network

The scenario is as follows: Copying and then syncing from a live mail server via network(only) to another server. The mail server is live meaning that lots of files (mails) are being altered, deleted and created. I have tried rsync but it's…
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Active Directory max photo size

We are looking at putting photos in Active Directory. We have many domain controllers, some are in areas with not a lot of bandwidth. What are the recommend/max files sizes for photos or is this a bad idea to begin with. We are currently storing…
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Linux User Synchronization

What would you recommend as a way to manage users in a small Linux network, so that users only need to be created on one machine with them synchronized automatically on the others. Some are laptops that are not always connected if that matters.…
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Simple one-way synchronisation of user password list between servers

Using a RedHat-derivative distro (CentOS), I'd like to keep the list of regular users (UID over 500), and group (and shadow files) pushed to a backup server. The sync is only one-way, from the main server to the backup server. I don't really want to…
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Suggestions for using Active Directory credentials (user name/password) with Google Apps?

I run a small college network with approximately 150 user accounts both in my Active Directory and in Google Apps. I'm looking to link AD with G-Apps. Currently my users are required to maintain separate passwords for each. Obviously this is not…
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