which one is faster?

2012-08-08 Thread lina
Hi, It's a bit big data to transfer, around 1.1 T, from one server to another server. I checked that rsync is faster than scp, but in my situations rsync has elapsed for 1 hour, I guess the network is also a problem, Here I wish to know are there some tools (better default) can use for fast tra

Re: which one is faster?

2012-08-08 Thread Raffaele Morelli
2012/8/8 lina > Hi, > > It's a bit big data to transfer, around 1.1 T, > > from one server to another server. > > I checked that rsync is faster than scp, > but in my situations rsync has elapsed for 1 hour, I guess the network > is also a problem > split (man split) your data into little chunck

Re: which one is faster?

2012-08-08 Thread Jochen Spieker
lina: > > It's a bit big data to transfer, around 1.1 T, > > from one server to another server. Either use rsync without encryption (= not tunneled over SSH), or pipe tar through netcat. The latter does not support resuming. If you can tell us a bit more, we might be able to help better. Do you

Re: which one is faster?

2012-08-08 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 12:14 AM, lina wrote: > Hi, > > It's a bit big data to transfer, around 1.1 T, > > from one server to another server. > > I checked that rsync is faster than scp, Well, sometimes. Certainly if you have some of the data in both places and need to sync it, rsync will just do

Re: which one is faster?

2012-08-08 Thread Johann Spies
Hallo Lina, > It's a bit big data to transfer, around 1.1 T, > > from one server to another server. You can also use netcat (man nc - see under examples). It is probably the fastest method. I have used that in the past in combination with rsync: copy it using netcat and check the result with

RE: which one is faster?

2012-08-08 Thread Tóth Tibor Péter
I user rsync for everything. rsync -vaP /location/ user@remote-host:/location/ I've found it best sofar. -Original Message- From: Johann Spies [mailto:jsp...@sun.ac.za] Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2012 9:59 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: which one is faster? Hallo Lina

Re: which one is faster?

2012-08-08 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
On 08/08/12 09:14, lina wrote: > It's a bit big data to transfer, around 1.1 T, > > from one server to another server. > > I checked that rsync is faster than scp, > but in my situations rsync has elapsed for 1 hour, I guess the network > is also a problem, > > Here I wish to know are there some

USB ports not working after device disconnect

2012-08-08 Thread Laurence Hurst
Hi folks, Occasionally, when I disconnect a device (usually a mass storage device) from my laptop (Lenovo Thinkpad x201), the USB ports stop recognising devices when I plug them in until I reboot. The ports are still powered and will charge e.g. a phone if I plug one in but nothing at all is

Re: which one is faster?

2012-08-08 Thread Darac Marjal
On Wed, Aug 08, 2012 at 03:14:50PM +0800, lina wrote: > Hi, > > It's a bit big data to transfer, around 1.1 T, > > from one server to another server. > > I checked that rsync is faster than scp, > but in my situations rsync has elapsed for 1 hour, I guess the network > is also a problem, > > He

Re: Debian showing less RAM

2012-08-08 Thread Darac Marjal
On Wed, Aug 08, 2012 at 03:52:49PM +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > i am using debian 6.0.4. i have 8GB of ram installed in a server 2GB x > 4. bios also shows 8 GB. > > however top only shows 2gb or RAM > > top - 15:48:29 up 16 min, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.00 > Tasks: 90 total

Re: [OT] Intelectual Property Law

2012-08-08 Thread John Hasler
Celejar writes: > I can say the same about the very institution of private property; it > creates a monopoly (only I have the legal right to use a particular > piece of property) where none would otherwise exist, and that is its > very purpose. You and I cannot eat the same apple. We can both hav

Re: Debian showing less RAM

2012-08-08 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
i was using i686 kernel now i just updated amd64 it worked aptitude install linux-image-2.6-amd64 root@lion:~# free total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem: 8134920 833728051548 0 2272 17392 -/+ buffers/cache: 63708

Re: Debian showing less RAM

2012-08-08 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 5:14 PM, Darac Marjal wrote: > On Wed, Aug 08, 2012 at 03:52:49PM +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: >> i am using debian 6.0.4. i have 8GB of ram installed in a server 2GB x >> 4. bios also shows 8 GB. >> >> however top only shows 2gb or RAM >> >> top - 15:48:29 up 16 min,

Re: Debian showing less RAM

2012-08-08 Thread Darac Marjal
On Wed, Aug 08, 2012 at 05:18:18PM +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > i was using i686 kernel now i just updated amd64 it worked > aptitude install linux-image-2.6-amd64 > > root@lion:~# free > total used free sharedbuffers cached > Mem: 8134920 8

Re: Debian showing less RAM

2012-08-08 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 5:26 PM, Darac Marjal wrote: > On Wed, Aug 08, 2012 at 05:18:18PM +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: >> i was using i686 kernel now i just updated amd64 it worked >> aptitude install linux-image-2.6-amd64 >> >> root@lion:~# free >> total used free

Re: Re: aptitude safe-upgrade stops with a timeout.

2012-08-08 Thread Dominique Brazziel
It may be due to dbus request for packagekit. From 'apt-config dump | grep 'DPkg::Post-Invoke': <* snip *> DPkg::Post-Invoke:: "/usr/bin/test -e /usr/share/dbus-1/system-services/org.freedesktop.PackageKit.service && /usr/bin/test -S /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket && /usr/bin/gdbus call --system

Re: which one is faster?

2012-08-08 Thread lina
On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 3:35 PM, Jochen Spieker wrote: > lina: >> >> It's a bit big data to transfer, around 1.1 T, >> >> from one server to another server. > > Either use rsync without encryption (= not tunneled over SSH), or pipe > tar through netcat. The latter does not support resuming. Thanks

Re: Setting up to do repetitive installs on ONE machine (cf BabelBox)

2012-08-08 Thread Richard Owlett
Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Lu, 06 aug 12, 08:46:14, Richard Owlett wrote: Are there other routes to my goals I should investigate? FAI? http://fai-project.org Kind regards, Andrei Thanks. Initial browse through the site seems to emphasize its ties to use in a moderately large network. I'd pr

Re: which one is faster?

2012-08-08 Thread lina
On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 3:58 PM, Johann Spies wrote: > Hallo Lina, > > >> It's a bit big data to transfer, around 1.1 T, >> >> from one server to another server. > > You can also use netcat (man nc - see under examples). It is probably > the fastest method. > > I have used that in the past in combi

Re: which one is faster?

2012-08-08 Thread lina
On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 4:43 PM, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > On 08/08/12 09:14, lina wrote: >> It's a bit big data to transfer, around 1.1 T, >> >> from one server to another server. >> >> I checked that rsync is faster than scp, >> but in my situations rsync has elapsed for 1 hour, I guess the ne

multiple swap areas and RAID 1

2012-08-08 Thread Georgi Naplatanov
Hi. I'm going to configure Debian GNU/Linux with software RAID 1 and I think to put swap area on RAID 1 (/dev/mdX), but someone told me that if the computer have multiple swap partition (e.g. /dev/sda2, /dev/sdb2) with equal priorities, linux kernel will mirror swap area between different dev

Re: which one is faster?

2012-08-08 Thread lina
On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 8:10 PM, Darac Marjal wrote: > On Wed, Aug 08, 2012 at 03:14:50PM +0800, lina wrote: >> Hi, >> >> It's a bit big data to transfer, around 1.1 T, >> >> from one server to another server. >> >> I checked that rsync is faster than scp, >> but in my situations rsync has elapsed

Re: which one is faster?

2012-08-08 Thread Johann Spies
On Wed, Aug 08, 2012 at 09:00:18PM +0800, lina wrote: > > BTW, How to set the port for netcat? > The remote one has the following ports open: Choose one not from that list above 1024 and make sure any firewalls between the two computers allow that. See the following examples: http://www.screena

Re: which one is faster?

2012-08-08 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 08 Aug 2012 15:14:50 +0800, lina wrote: > It's a bit big data to transfer, around 1.1 T, > > from one server to another server. Are both hosts remote (over Internet) or local (LAN)? > I checked that rsync is faster than scp, but in my situations rsync has > elapsed for 1 hour, I guess

Re: USB ports not working after device disconnect

2012-08-08 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 08 Aug 2012 12:25:46 +0100, Laurence Hurst wrote: > Occasionally, when I disconnect a device (usually a mass storage device) > from my laptop (Lenovo Thinkpad x201), the USB ports stop recognising > devices when I plug them in until I reboot. The ports are still powered > and will charge

Re: Kernel Oops during/after rsync

2012-08-08 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 08 Aug 2012 01:54:11 +0200, Claudius Hubig wrote: > recently, I _sometimes_ encounter a kernel oops during a backup run. > This did not occur until a few days ago, furthermore, all the crashes so > far (a backup takes place every half hour and I’ve only seen three > during the last five da

Re: USB ports not working after device disconnect

2012-08-08 Thread Laurence Hurst
On 08/08/2012 15:51, Camaleón wrote: Weird. Check if there's a BIOS update, just in case. I didn't think of that (d'oh!). There is a newer BIOS (more than one, actually) on Lenovo's website for my machine. I will have a go at installing the latest one and see if it helps. Kernel does n

Re: Kernel Oops during/after rsync

2012-08-08 Thread Claudius Hubig
Hello Camaleón, Camaleón wrote: > Is the Patrician III a stable pattern for the crash? I mean, is it always > crashing when running it and it keeps stable when at the time the routine > runs the computer is idle? I am not entirely sure. So far, the computer crashed thrice during a backup, and,

[OT] Will upcoming Debian 8 release default to XFCE for the CD media?

2012-08-08 Thread Camaleón
Hello, Subject says it all. I ask because I've read this from two different sources¹ now (the other magazine is written in Spanish), so is this true? I could only find this mailing list thread² as the official reference but from the comments on there it does not look like a final decision has

Re: multiple swap areas and RAID 1

2012-08-08 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 08 Aug 2012 16:25:01 +0300, Georgi Naplatanov wrote: > I'm going to configure Debian GNU/Linux with software RAID 1 and I think > to put swap area on RAID 1 (/dev/mdX), but someone told me that if the > computer have multiple swap partition (e.g. /dev/sda2, /dev/sdb2) with > equal prioriti

Re: [OT] Will upcoming Debian 8 release default to XFCE for the CD media?

2012-08-08 Thread Brian
On Wed 08 Aug 2012 at 16:23:28 +, Camaleón wrote: > Subject says it all. How can this be [OT]? It's about Debian. It concerns Wheezy. And the installer is involved, too. > I ask because I've read this from two different sources¹ now (the other > magazine is written in Spanish), so is this

Re: multiple swap areas and RAID 1

2012-08-08 Thread Mark Allums
On 8/8/2012 8:25 AM, Georgi Naplatanov wrote: Hi. I'm going to configure Debian GNU/Linux with software RAID 1 and I think to put swap area on RAID 1 (/dev/mdX), but someone told me that if the computer have multiple swap partition (e.g. /dev/sda2, /dev/sdb2) with equal priorities, linux kernel

Re: multiple swap areas and RAID 1

2012-08-08 Thread Georgi Naplatanov
On 08/08/2012 08:14 PM, � wrote: On Wed, 08 Aug 2012 16:25:01 +0300, Georgi Naplatanov wrote: I'm going to configure Debian GNU/Linux with software RAID 1 and I think to put swap area on RAID 1 (/dev/mdX), but someone told me that if the computer have multiple swap partition (e.g. /dev/sda2, /d

Re: [OT] Will upcoming Debian 8 release default to XFCE for the CD media?

2012-08-08 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 08 Aug 2012 18:35:44 +0100, Brian wrote: > On Wed 08 Aug 2012 at 16:23:28 +, Camaleón wrote: > >> Subject says it all. > > How can this be [OT]? It's about Debian. It concerns Wheezy. And the > installer is involved, too. I tagged as OT because the scope (chit-chat) is out of the te

Re: Will upcoming Debian 7 release default to XFCE for the CD media?

2012-08-08 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 08 aug 12, 17:45:40, Camaleón wrote: > > I tagged as OT because the scope (chit-chat) is out of the technical > issues expected here. Come on... > And it concerns Jessie, not Wheezy (please, don't scare me! ;-) ) Why do you think it doesn't concern Wheezy? Kind regards, Andrei -- Offt

Re: multiple swap areas and RAID 1

2012-08-08 Thread Gary Dale
On 08/08/12 01:45 PM, Georgi Naplatanov wrote: On 08/08/2012 08:14 PM, � wrote: On Wed, 08 Aug 2012 16:25:01 +0300, Georgi Naplatanov wrote: I'm going to configure Debian GNU/Linux with software RAID 1 and I think to put swap area on RAID 1 (/dev/mdX), but someone told me that if the computer

Re: Will upcoming Debian 7 release default to XFCE for the CD media?

2012-08-08 Thread Shane Johnson
On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 11:56 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Mi, 08 aug 12, 17:45:40, Camaleón wrote: > > > > I tagged as OT because the scope (chit-chat) is out of the technical > > issues expected here. > > Come on... > > > And it concerns Jessie, not Wheezy (please, don't scare me! ;-) ) > > Why

Re: [OT] Will upcoming Debian 8 release default to XFCE for the CD media?

2012-08-08 Thread Brian
On Wed 08 Aug 2012 at 17:45:40 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Wed, 08 Aug 2012 18:35:44 +0100, Brian wrote: > > > On Wed 08 Aug 2012 at 16:23:28 +, Camaleón wrote: > > > >> Subject says it all. > > > > How can this be [OT]? It's about Debian. It concerns Wheezy. And the > > installer is involv

Re: replacing GDM with a script

2012-08-08 Thread Frank McCormick
On 08/08/12 02:34 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Vi, 03 aug 12, 10:24:03, Frank McCormick wrote: At this point it's just plain curiousity :) Seems to me GDM, while it does a good job takes up a lot of memory (I only have a gig) to just pick a window manager. Although at this point I guess

installing virtual guest via ssh on console based remote host

2012-08-08 Thread Nelson Green
Installing qemu-kvm and a guest on a remote system is turning into an absolute nightmare, so I'm once again turning to this list for help. The host OS is a Centos 6.3 server, without X installed. I am connecting remotely via SSH. I have followed several tutorials, and after 2 days I finally ha

Re: replacing GDM with a script

2012-08-08 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Mi, 08 aug 12, 14:51:00, Frank McCormick wrote: > > At this point I am running SLIM...although I am told now it is > unmaintained. How can that be if it's still in the repositories ? Probably because it doesn't have any RC bugs. > Anyway it requires a fair amount of config-ing...and much

RE: installing virtual guest via ssh on console based remote host

2012-08-08 Thread Nelson Green
> Can anyone direct me on how to initiate the install process in such a way > that I get useful information on the screen? Secondly, can anyone direct me > on how to reconnect to the installation that is still in progress. Third, the > reason my virtual machine is named guest4-centos63 is becau

Re: Squeeze: sometimes, bind times out (backgrounded) at boot time

2012-08-08 Thread Joao Roscoe
Ok, I really mixed things up. I'm sorry (and I'm also very sorry for the *huge* delay in answering to this thread). I meant that **ypbind** fails to bind to ypserver. And yes, the NIS domain servers are specified in yp.conf by their fully qualified names, and those names are hardcoded in /etc/host

Re: Debian showing less RAM

2012-08-08 Thread Martin Steigerwald
Am Mittwoch, 8. August 2012 schrieb Muhammad Yousuf Khan: > i was using i686 kernel now i just updated amd64 it worked > aptitude install linux-image-2.6-amd64 > > root@lion:~# free > total used free sharedbuffers > cached Mem: 8134920 833728051

Re: replacing GDM with a script

2012-08-08 Thread Siard
Frank McCormick: > Andrei POPESCU: > > Frank McCormick: > > > At this point it's just plain curiousity :) Seems to me GDM, > > > while it does a good job takes up a lot of memory (I only have a > > > gig) to just pick a window manager. Although at this point I guess > > > GDM does more than t

Re: replacing GDM with a script

2012-08-08 Thread Chris Davies
Frank McCormick wrote: > I am running 3 Linux distros with Sid as my main one. I am curious to > know if it's possible to replace GDM with a BASH script. It depends on what you want to do. It's possible, since bash provides a Turing Complete language, but whether it's realistic is another matter

Re: installing virtual guest via ssh on console based remote host

2012-08-08 Thread Chris Davies
Nelson Green wrote: > Installing qemu-kvm and a guest on a remote system is turning into an > absolute nightmare, so I'm once again turning to this list for help. > The host OS is a Centos 6.3 server, without X installed. If it was Debian I could advise you to install the libvirt-bin, bridge-uti

RE: installing virtual guest via ssh on console based remote host

2012-08-08 Thread Nelson Green
> From: chris-use...@roaima.co.uk > Subject: Re: installing virtual guest via ssh on console based remote host > Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2012 20:54:28 +0100 > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > Nelson Green wrote: > > Installing qemu-kvm and a guest on a remo

Re: multiple swap areas and RAID 1

2012-08-08 Thread Rob Owens
On Wed, Aug 08, 2012 at 04:25:01PM +0300, Georgi Naplatanov wrote: > Hi. > > I'm going to configure Debian GNU/Linux with software RAID 1 and I > think to put swap area on RAID 1 (/dev/mdX), but someone told me > that if the computer have multiple swap partition (e.g. /dev/sda2, > /dev/sdb2) with

Re: [OT] Will upcoming Debian 8 release default to XFCE for the CD media?

2012-08-08 Thread Rob Owens
On Wed, Aug 08, 2012 at 05:45:40PM +, Camaleón wrote: > > I wonder what the other linux distributions are doing in this regard, > what the GNOME teams (Debian and upstream) think about it and what other > desktop environments can be also considered as good options to be used > for the defau

Re: [OT] Will upcoming Debian 8 release default to XFCE for the CD media?

2012-08-08 Thread Keith McKenzie
On 8 August 2012 17:23, Camaleón wrote: > Hello, > > Subject says it all. > > I ask because I've read this from two different sources¹ now (the other > magazine is written in Spanish), so is this true? > > I could only find this mailing list thread² as the official reference but > from the comment

Re: replacing GDM with a script

2012-08-08 Thread Frank McCormick
On 08/08/12 05:17 PM, Keith McKenzie wrote: I just came across my old script for starting different WMs from the C/L. #! /bin/sh clear;echo;echo "Menu Items" echo;echo "1 > TWM" echo "2 > Blackbox" echo "3 > Ratpoison" echo;echo "Choice: " $reply; read reply case $reply in 1) cp initrc-twm in

RE: installing virtual guest via ssh on console based remote host

2012-08-08 Thread Nelson Green
OK, another quick question, completely off subject, but hardly worth a new thread. When I look at my previous post through a browser, there are no line breaks, and one has to scroll across the screen to read it. I don't imagine this is desirable for most users. Is that a result of my mail client

Re: installing virtual guest via ssh on console based remote host

2012-08-08 Thread Chris Davies
Nelson Green wrote: > I've got some more progress to report if you'll bear with me. First > of all, I did install the libvirt-bin and qemu-kvm packages. A bit of > history as to why I say this has been a nightmare is because the basic > problem has been a lack of straight-forward documentation, bu

Re: [OT] Will upcoming Debian 8 release default to XFCE for the CD media?

2012-08-08 Thread Greg Madden
On Wednesday 08 August 2012 1:31:05 pm Keith McKenzie wrote: > On 8 August 2012 17:23, Camaleón wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Subject says it all. > > > > I ask because I've read this from two different sources¹ now (the other > > magazine is written in Spanish), so is this true? > > > > I could onl

Re: [OT] Intelectual Property Law

2012-08-08 Thread Joel Rees
On 8/8/12, John Hasler wrote: > Celejar writes: >> I can say the same about the very institution of private property; it >> creates a monopoly (only I have the legal right to use a particular >> piece of property) where none would otherwise exist, and that is its >> very purpose. > > You and I can

Re: Do ATI HD cards have good working drivers for Linux (Debian Squeeze in particular)

2012-08-08 Thread aditya menon
Hello again, It turns out that the problem was not having the proper driver for my i3 processor's integrated graphics. I had the drivers for a previous processor versions and after this upgrade, I get the maximum resolution supported by my screen. On Wednesday, July 11, 2012 5:40:03 PM UTC+5:3

Re: [OT] Intelectual Property Law

2012-08-08 Thread Joel Rees
On 8/8/12, John Hasler wrote: > I wrote: >> Thus you have a monopoly on the reproduction of copies of your work. > > Celajar writes: >> Okay, but this is veering close to sophistry; I can also say that any >> private ownership of property is monopolistic, since it gives the >> owner a monopoly on

Squeeze install in ultrabooks with SSD and HDD

2012-08-08 Thread L V Gandhi
Has any one installed dual boot system of windows and squeeze in ultrabooks with both mSATA SSD and HDD? Kindly give links or procedure to keep windows and linux. -- L V Gandhi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact l

Re: Do ATI HD cards have good working drivers for Linux (Debian Squeeze in particular)

2012-08-08 Thread Guy Gold
On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 8:13 PM, aditya menon wrote: > Hello again, > > It turns out that the problem was not having the proper driver for my i3 > >processor's integrated graphics. I had the drivers for a previous processor > >versions and after this upgrade, I get the maximum resolution supporte

Re: Squeeze install in ultrabooks with SSD and HDD

2012-08-08 Thread Gary Dale
On 08/08/12 08:48 PM, L V Gandhi wrote: Has any one installed dual boot system of windows and squeeze in ultrabooks with both mSATA SSD and HDD? Kindly give links or procedure to keep windows and linux. You don't have to do anything special. Just partition the disks the way you like. Linux inst

iceweasle saving username and password

2012-08-08 Thread lina
Hi, My question is that how can I let the iceweasle kept the saved password as un-readable? Right now I felt very bad, I can access some database with my user name and password, (it's a "universal" password and username, which means it's also the one I use for email and many other things, such a