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Mirroring is a type of file synchronization where one of the synchronization location (the destination) is modified to match the other (the source).

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Mirroring laptop screen to TV wirelessly

I have a HP DV6 laptop and a SAMSUNG UE46F6505 smart TV. How can I connect/mirror my laptop to the TV wirelessly without an HDMI cable? Both the laptop and TV are connected the wireless router. I ...
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Create a mdadm raid mirror of an existing lvm

Hello I'm trying to figure out how I can create a pretty strange mdadm mirror of my lvm. I have 4 disks, (sda,b,c,d). Each disk has 2 partitions: 1Gb - physical volume 500mb - Swap My system lvm ...
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Mirroring web server in different port

I have a local web server which is accessible from the Internet through port 3333. I used port forwarding to achieve this. And now I am planning to develop a solution (possible network configuration ...
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What hardware is needed to support Miracast?

With Windows 8.1 natively supporting Miracast, we saw a demonstration of screen mirroring via Xbox One at the ongoing //build/ conference. If I want to mirror my laptop screen running Windows 8.1, ...
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Windows 8, Diskpart, "The command you selected is not available with this version of Windows"

Windows 8, not Pro or Enterprise. I want to mirror a volume. I run Diskpart, and type: select volume 1 add disk 1 and this appears: The command you selected is not available with this ...
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How can I download script generated images off a website

I am trying to mirror a website. It follows a simple scheme of .htm files but there is one catch. Each file contains the following line: <img width="100%" src="http://DOMAIN.org/CREATE_IMAGE.php"&...
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Clean Install With Windows Managed Mirror

ok so i have a win 7 pro with 2 1TB drives that are mirrored using the windows disk management mirror. I am planning on doing a new / clean install on this PC with windows 8 and afraid that the disk ...
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How to mirror multiple sources to a single destination?

I have multiple 2-3TB drives inside and connected to my working PC. The data I want to backup on each system lies in the folder "digitalized" (photos, time-lapse, etc). I have a NAS (PC with 8 drives ...
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check physical contents of hard disk connected in software Raid 1 / Windows 7

I have two 500GB hard disks configured in raid 1 (mirroring) on Windows 7. It is being labelled as 'Healthy' in Windows. As you know, these are accessed as one partition of 500GB. Is there any tool ...
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alerting you when a hdd is missing with software windows raid

So I open up Computer Management on my file serving computer in what has to be the first time in months or maybe even over a year and see that the mirror I had created of my 1TB HDD has "failed ...
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Automatic offline synchronization / mirroring files

I'm working on a few different computers (PC, two notebooks) and I'm looking a way to easily synchronize files through these machines. I wish it would work the following way: I've got an external ...
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OpenSuse 12.2 and drbd

I am trying to setup tow NFS servers mirrored by drbd using OpenSuse 12.2 x64. There is a yast2 package for the drbd which I installed. The module is found under yast2 - Mischellaneous. I get the ...
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Mirror/back-up SSD to spare USB mounted SSD in case of Failure

I have my Windows 8 OS on an mSata SSD and an identical spare SSD mounted in a USB caddy. What is the best way to create a "mirror"/backup so that if my primary SSD fails I can just remove it and ...
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Backing files up with Dropbox and Google Drive simultaneously [duplicate]

I know there are potentially ways to do this by putting your dropbox folders within your Google Drive folder, but it makes me a bit nervous. I have plenty of room on my hard drive, so figured maybe ...
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Is Windows 7 on a SSD slower if I use Windows integrated mirroring?

Yesterday I configured Windows software mirroring for my SSD and one of my HDD, because I don't want to loose any data from the SSD. Now Windows seems to be much slower. Is mirroring in Windows 7 so ...
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Continious mirroring of the whole notebook hard drive into a file on the exernal usb hard drive in Ubuntu Linux

What I need to have continious mirroring of the whole notebook hard drive into a file on the exernal usb hard drive. Sometimes the external drive could be unplugged. I'm running Ubuntu Linux.
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Mirror apt repository that uses .bz2 files

I'm currently trying to set up a mirror for several apt-repositories that use Packages.bz2 files instead of regular gzip. Unfortunately, apt-mirror on Ubuntu always tries to fetch Packages.gz files ...
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whole volume private Dropbox with Windows 7 [closed]

I want to setup full volume file mirroring from a client computer to a server computer. In my imagination the end result is something slightly comparable to both RAID1 and dropbox. I have listed a ...
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HDMI mirror display issues

I have an Alienware X51 desktop and want to set up mirror displays using the NVIDIA card built-in mini HDMI and the other regular HDMI to two different TVs. I have the latest drivers on the GTX555 ...
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Symlinking some of my drive to another, AND syncing structures (Link Shell Extension?)

I'm going to install a SSD and a hard drive on my computer soon. It's a 128 GB SSD, and a 1 TB hard drive. I'm going to use the SSD as follows: It will store the OS and most applications. As for the ...
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Windows 7 Dynamic Mirror Fails Redundancy

I have two 1TB HDDs forming a single volume in Windows 7 with a "Mirror" layout and a "Dynamic" type. The status is "Failed Redundancy" according to the Disk Management tool in the control panel. ...
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Are there any good software-based RAID 1 mirroring alternatives to Windows 7 Computer Management?

I only have Windows 7 Home Premium, not Professional, so the mirroring option isn't available in Computer Management. Are there any good alternatives? It's possible RAID 1 is overkill for what I'm ...
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How to mirror a website on linux?

There is this abandoned blog witch can disappear any moment, and I want to make a browsable copy this site. The saved pages should contain correct on-page links, liked images and other files like pdf-...
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Recover data from one PV of an LVM mirror

A 1TB disk containing one partition which was the only PV in a VG containing one LV was failing by becoming intolerably slow without reporting any errors. My first thought was to attempt to use LVM ...
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What software should I use to make a copy of my hard drive in ISO format?

I want to make a complete copy of my hard drive (and I have the capability to boot off external media to allow for unmounting of hard drive partitions). However, the majority of "ghosting" software I ...
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How to delete empty folders on ftp server?

I am using the following script to auto download files from my remote seedbox using lftp: set ftp:list-options -a set ftp:ssl-allow no set mirror:use-pget-n 5 set cmd:fail-exit true open ftp....
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Excel - Mirror Specific Cell Range

Is it possible to mirror or replicate a cell range from one worksheet to another? For example: ---------------------------------------------- | CELL01 | CELL02 | CELL03 | CELL04 | CELL05 | ----------...
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How to auto-update a website mirror with exceptions to certain pages?

I'm currently mirroring a website on my server. The site itself is rarely updated, but it is updated enough that info can become outdated quickly. I mirrored it first with wget, and this worked fine, ...
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Mirror Internal Hard Drive Partition to External Hard Drive Partition

I have a ~1.5 TB partition in my internal hard drive out of which ~320 GB is used. I also have a 450 GB partition in an external hard drive connected through USB 3.0. First, I want to mirror the ...
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Firmware vs OS RAID (aka Windows 8 Disk Mirroring vs Intel Onboard)

So Windows 8 is out and I have a new motherboard. I wish to create a RAID 1 coupling between two HDDs -- for storage purposes only (my OS is on an SSD) -- but I don't know which is the best route to ...
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Download web server structure with empty files

I want to make a mirror of a Web server, but downloading the actual files will take too long. So I thought of having just the directory and file structure, and when I need the actual contents of the ...
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Can I mirror a folder's contents as it's changed in OSX?

TL;DR How can I mirror the contents of a Mac OSX directory, to another directory on my hard drive? I have a Dropbox folder that I use on all of my computers (a few Windows machines and a Macbook.) ...
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win7 dynamic disk set

I have 3 disk set up where disk1 is OS boot drive. disk2 & disk3 is a dynamic mirror. what happens if my boot drive is corrupted ? can I just bring the dynamic set to another machine ?
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Sync and Encrypt

My question is quite similar to this but the difference is that I want the sync application to encrypt the files before it puts them in the destination and also the destination is accessed by FTP. It'...
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File Sync (Mirror/Replicate) From source to multiple targets

My situation is this; I need to find a way of mirroring a folder with 60gb+ of mp3 files from a server (or cloud) to at least 100 clients based around the country. All of these clients are internet ...
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What are mirror sites used for? [closed]

I've heard the term mirror site being used for downloading packages, but I'm not exactly sure of its importance. Isn't a mirror site just a copy of another website?
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My existing external RAID 1 will not show on my new motherboard

I had two identical (external) WD 1Tb HDD that I set up in RAID 1 NOT through BIOS. I forgot how I did it (just followed some instructions online how to do it through Disk Management). But the RAID ...
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2TB NTFS storage HDD, backup/mirror/sync to external HDD, software options/solutions needed

I have a 2TB internal HDD, with a single NTFS(Windows 7) partition used for storage purposes. I want to backup/mirror/sync it to an external 2TB HDD. From what I know that mirroring can be done ...
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How can I download an entire (active) SMF2 forum? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How can I download an entire website? I would like to download a full copy of a Simple Machines 2 Forum. I want to make a locally browsable copy of the entire forum. The forum ...
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apt-mirror for Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala

I want to backup a full mirror of old-releases Ubuntu because I need Karmic packages for my software. I'm also afraid that old-releases.ubuntu will be deleted. Is there any possibility to get a full ...
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Extracting Data from Mirrored RAID Volume

I have a Dell PowerEdge 1750 thats dead now. Inside was raid 1 (mirror) volume of two SCSI hard drives. I need some data from those drives. If I attach one of them to another SCSI controller will I ...
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What triggers a RAID 1 mirror rebuild on a Lacie 2 Big USB3?

I have a RAID 1 mirror on a Lacie 2 Big USB3. When I break the mirror by pulling out one drive, keep making changes on the remaining drive and finally put the first one back in, the drives stay ...
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how to copy a linux mint apt mirror

I have a linux mint install that will be placed on a private network without internet access. Is it possible to download an Apt mirror for Mint and place in on a server in the private network so that ...
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How do I break a failed software RAID1(mirror) in Windows 7 without wiping data on the mirror HDD?

In Windows 7 I have created a software RAID1 array that has failed(failed redundancy) due to some weak sectors on one of the HDDs. I want to be able to reactivate the mirror HDD as a separate ...
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Full Screen Games Don't Get Mirrored to Secondary Display (HDTV)

before posting this question I just want you to know that I did a lot of googling and came up empty. Info: I'm on OS: Windows 7, GPU: ADM Radeon 5850 (using AMD Control Center, latest drivers ...
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Why does wget not get all the pages when mirroring this site

I want to mirror the following web site completely: http://tinaztitiz.com I use the following wget command: wget -m http://tinaztitiz.com The web site is a custom CMS and contains lots of pages ...
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Setting up two external USB hard drive as RAID 1 [duplicate]

Is this possible in Windows 7? I know I can periodically sync my files using software like SyncBack but I'm looking for mirroring on the fly. Is there a similar method like RAID 1 that can achieve ...
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Can I mirror / duplicate mouse events on both halves of my screen?

If I have two identical applications side-by-side on my desktop, is there software that exists that will mimic what I do on the left half on the right? Basically, if my screen is 1000x1000 and a click ...
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Folder Mirroring onto NAS

I have a Win7 setup where I need to mirror, a local folder onto a NAS. I've tried Microsoft SyncToy but that is entirely too slow and produces inaccurate results. A requirement is that open files must ...
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how to make automatic git mirror for hg repo

I've Vim plugin project on GoogleCode using Mercurial, but users wants to have it on github to ease use it as git subrepo (to keep their ~/.vim/ on github with all plugins inside). Personally I ...
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