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Is a generic term for the act of transmitting files over a computer network or the Internet.

Is a generic term for the act of transmitting files over a computer network or the Internet. There are numerous ways and protocols to transfer files over a network. Computers which provide a file transfer service are often called file servers. Depending on the client's perspective, the data transfer can be called uploading or downloading.

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rsync error: failed to set times on "/foo/bar": Operation not permitted

I'm getting a confusing error from rsync and the initial things I'm finding from web searches (as well as all the usual chmod'ing) are not solving it: rsync: failed to set times on "/foo/bar": Operation not permitted (1) rsync error: some files…
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Comparing HTTP and FTP for transferring files

What are the advantages (or limitations) of one over the other for transferring files over the Internet? (I am aware of secure forms of both protocols. I'd like to hear comparisons through personal experiences in terms of performance, reliability,…
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scp from Linux to Windows

I am running a putty client on a Windows machine to connect successfully to a Linux box. Now I want to be able to copy a file from the Linux machine under the path /home/ubuntu/myfile to C:/Users/Anshul/Desktop on my local computer. The user at the…
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Transfer files to/from session I'm logged in with PuTTY

I'm logged into a remote host using PuTTY. What is the command to transfer files from my local machine to the machine I'm logged into on PuTTY?
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ssh_init: Network error: Cannot assign requested address

I am trying to set up a connection and transfer files using putty on a windows 10 platform. I have verified that the default port in putty is 22. When I run the command in the command line to connect and transfer files though I get the above…
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scp copy directory to another server with private key auth

is there something wrong with this scp command ? scp -C -i ./remoteServerKey.ppk -r /var/www/* root@192.168.0.15:/var/www I use the same .ppk as in putty and enter the same passphrase, but it asks me 3 times and than says connection denied. I…
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filezilla, error while writing failure

I'm transferring a very large (35GB) file through SFTP and FileZilla. Now the transfer is 59.7% done, but I keep getting this error, and it hasn't changed that number for hours. Error: File transfer failed after transferring 1,048,576 bytes in…
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Moving files from one folder to another C#

Guys I am trying to move all files ending with _DONE into another folder. I tried //take all files of main folder to folder model_RCCMrecTransfered string rootFolderPath = @"F:/model_RCCMREC/"; string destinationPath =…
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how to achieve transfer file between client and server using java socket

I have implement the simple TCP server and TCP client classes which can send the message from client to server and the message will be converted to upper case on the server side, but how can I achieve transfer files from server to client and upload…
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Compress file on S3

I have a 17.7GB file on S3. It was generated as the output of a Hive query, and it isn't compressed. I know that by compressing it, it'll be about 2.2GB (gzip). How can I download this file locally as quickly as possible when transfer is the…
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How to transfer files to Amazon EC2 instance from my Windows 7 computer?

I want to be able to transfer a number of files (html, php, jpg, etc...) to my Amazon EC2 instance that I'm hosting my web server on. What is the easiest or most effective way to do this?
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SFTP file transfer using Java JSch

Here is my code, which retrieves content of the file, on the remote server and display as output. package sshexample; import com.jcraft.jsch.*; import java.io.*; public class SSHexample { public static void main(String[] args) { String user…
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Telnet File Transfer between two linux machines

I want to send a file from one Linux machine with IP suppose "192.168.2.25" to other Linux machine that's a server "192.168.2.110" how can i do that by using Telnet command??
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What is the maximum file size I can transfer using HTTP? And using FTP?

Added: I am conducting a study for a new system we're going to develop in my work. It consists in authenticating users, displaying what files they want to download and downloading them. Also, if the files are not readily available, the user can't…
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MobaXterm drag-and-drop panel missing

I need to run a program from my windows xP machine thats installed on a remote UNIX machine using MobaXterm but I have very little experience with this sort of thing. I can login into the machine using ssh and start the program without a problem.…
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