Questions tagged [mirroring]
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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Windows 10 Mirroring: "All disks holding extents for a given volume must have the same sector size, and the sector size must be valid."
So, here's the scenario: I have two Crucial M500 480GB SSD drives. These are both mirrored using Windows 10's disk mirroring feature, found in the Disk Management area. Both these drives are around 10 ...
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Setting up Raid 1 with multiple partitions
I am Setting up two (2) new identical hard drives (14TB each), in a OWC Mercury Elite Pro Dual external case, using RAID 1. Going to be creating 6 partitions. My question is:
Do I partition the first ...
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Mirror screen from Mac to another Mac running old OS
I have an very old Mac Mini which runs High Sierra OS. I connect it to my HDTV. Now I also have a Mac book which runs the latest Ventura. I want to cast media from my Mac book to the Mac mini so that ...
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How to convert LVM mirror to linear after disk failure
I have an ubuntu system with a simple mirrored LV in LVM. One of my disks has failed, and thus I removed it. However, i cannot seem to reduce my LV to linear.
I suspect my problem arose when I first ...
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I can't see my Samsung Smart TV anymore for wireless screen mirroring with Windows via a specific router
I was able to connect my TV (Samsung 40N5300) without any problem. The only problem was, it was disconnected sometimes. It's not like a timeout period since there is no specific for disconnection: It ...
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Windows 10 Home - Trying to create mirrored hard drives but option does not appear in Disk Management
I am trying to follow the steps in this video to create a mirrored hard drive on my Windows PC running Windows 10 Home build 19045.2486. I have 2 4TB SSDs and I want one of these SSDs to constantly be ...
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Why are there disk usage differences after backup/mirroring with robocopy?
I wanted to mirror the content from one disk (E:) to another disk (D:). If I compare them I see some file/folder/size differences and currently I don't know why ... Through exclusion I would expect ...
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WSL: rsync not deleting files in destination when absent from source
This is using WSL on a W10 machine.
I'm trying to mirror one drive to another.
The command I'm using looks like this:
root@M17A:/mnt/c/WINDOWS/system32# rsync -rtivlHu --delete --exclude "Backups&...
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How to sync file trees on windows to a local hard drive with complex exclusions
I'm looking for a possibility to one-way sync directory trees on windows from multiple hard drives to a external hard drive for backup. The source trees contain a lot of complex redundant files which ...
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Why does Windows not use the entire pool when creating a mirrored storage space?
I'm having a problem with setting up a RAID1 mirror using Storage Spaces where the default size smaller than the maximum available space. This pool is single mirror of two drives; I want to use all ...
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Moved files on mirror drive
I have two external drives that were identical mirrors of each other. Then, one drive had some files moved around. No new files, just moved to new folder locations.
Is there an easy way to bring these ...
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How to mirror linux pc screen to android over usb
I have an android tablet and a linux laptop running manjaro (KDE), I managed to use my android tablet as a fully functional second monitor by creating a virtual display and streaming it over wifi with ...
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Can Windows 11 run Bitlocker on a Mirrored partition?
I have a new laptop for work, I own it but need to store business files on it. I've been told to set it up a certain way to comply.
Work drive must be mirrored in case of disk failure, and
Work drive ...
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How can I flip (partially mirror) a selection of an image?
I have many pictures. The text in the text balloons is mirrored, or, horizontally flipped. How do I flip this text back so that it is normally readable?
Horizontal flipping (or mirroring) of the ...
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Combine LVM caching and mirroring
I have LVM caching setup for my home_1 LV and I would like to mirror it to a new PV as well. When I run lvconvert I get an error "Cannot convert LV myvg/home_1_corig."
Is it possible to ...
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Kali mirror sync error on laptop, desktop, bootable usb, and Raspberry Pi 4B 8gb
I have a problem with Kali Linux. I am currently running Kali on my laptop, desktop, Raspberry Pi 4B 8gb, and a bootable usb with 256gb storage. I recently tried updating, but all independent devices ...
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Is it wise to use parity over two-way mirror in a window storage space with 3 or more disks?
Windows storage spaces use slabs for the actual storage. Slabs are distributed in an (for the user) unknown fashion over the available disks. Even if you use two-way mirror and two disks you only know ...
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How does windows (11) two way mirrored storage spaces work exactly?
I'm setting up a Windows 11 machine using a storage spaces with two-way mirrored drives. As a test I've set this up in VMWare;
I've added two drives (2x10GB) and created the two-way mirrored storage ...
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How Does My PC Wirelessly Broadcast to My Smart TV
I recently discovered my smart TV has the capability do do screen mirroring from my desktop PC. I was wondering how this worked, or what hardware allows my PC to send data to the TV?
Initially I ...
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ZFS 3 Disk Mirror Pool with 1 Disk Removed Occasionally
I have a ZFS pool that contains 3 disks mirroring each other. I would like to be able to take one of the disks and store it offline and offsite for a few months then re-introduce it to the pool, sync ...
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Trouble making contents of two separate folders (on separate local drives) appear as one folder
I would like the contents (files NOT folders) of two folders on different (local) drives to appear as one. Preferably I would like it to be indistinguishable as to where the actual file path is and ...
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How to bypass DRM on mobile devices?
I am using an educational app that has an excellent DRM system. However, it isn't available for pc, and I really want to use it for pc as I don't like using mobile devices. I tried screen-sharing my ...
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How to enable Miracast on Windows 10?
I'm using Windows 10 Pro N and I want to mirror my phone screen to my Computer but I am unable to do so as it says "This device doesn't support Miracast" on Projecting to this PC.
I went to ...
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Is there way to check that two drives or folders have the same files but in different folder structure in windows 10?
I have a situation where I am copying thousands of photos of different filetypes into new folders on a new drive. Photos in their current state are unorganized and need to be structured better. I will ...
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wget fails to download some images in a webpage
So when I tried to download this webpage with wget, the text and styling works well, but some images are missing. Upon further research, the files fail to download because the url wget tries to ...
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Microsoft Wireless Display Adapter App not available in the Windows Store for some odd reason
I know it is available because it is listed in the Microsoft website..
But the store is not showing it...
Can anyone provide useful input regarding this issue?
Im on Windows 8.1, its an old laptop,
it ...
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Mirror a group of cells elsewhere in the same sheet
I am trying to have an interactive table multiple places in my sheet to prevent my users from having to scroll repetitively through this massive sheet. every time this table is updated from any of the ...
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How could i make a mirrored (sync) hard link copy of files from different folders on windows?
I'm trying to create hard link entries from a folders content into another folder, but synced in such a way that any files deleted from one (or the target) will be deleted from the other.
There is one ...
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Hardware RAID 1 vs Software RAID 1 vs Storage Spaces
I'm a long time power user but never had the chance or funds of running RAID in my system.
Last year i finally build a powerful system running an AMD X570 chipset and i use a HGST (now WD) HC530 HDD ...
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Wireless screen sharing between desktop and tablets
I have a TV/monitor hooked up to my desktop PC running Windows 10. I would like to have two touchscreen tablets for clients to use that would allow them to interact with that monitor that’s hooked up ...
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How to repair a failed software RAID 1 (mirror) with Windows 10 pro?
I have configured a Dynamic Volume mirror (RAID 1) using two separate drives for data only using Windows 10.
At some point, the RAID ran out of sync and never stopped resyncing, so I tried to find a ...
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Word - How can I display a section of text from document A in document B that updates in real time when I change it in either document A or B?
Is it possible to display a section e.g. paragraph from document A in multiple other documents (doc B, doc C & D) so that when I edit it in either doc A, doc B, doc C or doc D it updates that ...
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The operation failed to complete because the Disk Management console view is not up-to-date(add mirror win server 2012)
I have a problem when add mirror in disk management window server 2012
The problem is:
The operation failed to complete because the Disk Management console
view is not up-to-date. Refresh the view by ...
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How do you download an entire website for offline viewing with Wget?
I would like to download the entirety of a relatively small website (~50 pages) for offline viewing.
I could manually open every page in a browser and download them via ctrl + s, and this would create ...
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How do I mirror the boot partition of a Windows 10 version 2004?
I have the following setup:
Two identical NVMe disks of about 1TB size
Windows 10 Education N version 2004 (latest version as of writing this question as far as I'm aware)
A fresh install using UEFI ...
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Mirror a particular directory from one computer to another? [closed]
re the closure of this question:
This contrived supposed objection, i.e. that the question is not clear, is clearly not the case. If people have a reason to wish to close a question they must give ...
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In a mirroring backup profile, what percentage of destination file deletions or changes should raise a red flag?
Syncback offers a setting to abort an unattended mirror backup if a percentage of files will be deleted or changed on the destination.
Here are the settings available.
I chose the settings shown ...
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Add a new disk as mirroring (raid 1) to existing disk
I have disk1 with Windows Server OS and all my applications and DB installed and configured. Can I now add a fresh disk (disk2) to this existing disk1 and make it as mirroring disk (raid1) using ...
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What would happen if a RAID 1 contained 2 different file versions?
Let's say a hardware RAID 1 controller with disks A and B was taken offline, and a file present on both disks was altered on disk B (all within an offline state). When the RAID controller is turned ...
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how to create dynamic disk mirror in windows 7?
I have 2x 16TB HDDs. One of them has data on it and is a dynamic disk. The other is unformated. It has one giant 16TB unallocated partition.
In Disk Management, right clicking on the disk with data ...
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Can I make Windows 10 leave my USB drives alone?
TLDR: please name anything I can modify or disable to minimize access to my USB drives when I am not actively using them
I have two USB3.0 drives in a two way mirror storage space. They are also ...
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How to recover an LVM mirror after a phsyical device failure?
I had a drive fail in LVM, it shows up as unknown now. The volume group 'vmimages' was setup as a mirror
WARNING: Device for PV BejWGq-OBoi-RQ03-2pJU-ow0e-KORt-MbkW8F not found or rejected by a ...
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How do you mirror the User folder in Windows 10
I want to take two 250 GB SSDs and mirror them at C:\Users\ but the folder has to be empty according to the Disk Management Mirroring dialog (shown below)
So, if I click the "Next" button, an error ...
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Best xxcopy flags for one-time drive mirror/clone?
I’ve settled on xxcopy to do a one-time clone/mirror to my NAS before the source drive is reformatted.
Due to the amount of data and the desire not to impact daytime home usage, it’ll be run as a ...
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Backing up a network drive to another network drive through VPN
I am having a network drive on location A. This location A has a VPN tunnel to which I can connect remotely. I am having another network drive on Location B.
Now I want to mirror all my files every ...
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DisplayPort to HDMI (PC->TV)
I would like to mirror my PC monitor to TV. I have a cable with two types of ports. The PC side is DisplayPort and TV side is HDMI. After first connecting it was successfully mirrored, but after ...
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Win 10 boot volume mirror fails: Boot configuration data could not be updated
I'm trying to add a mirror of the C:\ volume in Windows, but Disk Management gives an error:
Disk Management
The boot configuration data of the system could not be updated.
Use bcdedit.exe to update ...
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Is rsync's --link-dest option "better" than --backup-dir?
In his popular article Easy Automated Snapshot-Style Backups with Linux and Rsync, Mike Rubel asserts that using rsync to create hard-linked snapshots with --link-dest is "a better way" to perform ...
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Difference between tcpdump and port mirroring? (Layer 3 switch)
When you can use TCPdump on an interface of a layer 3 switch in order to analyze the packets, why do we need to use the mirroring feature and make duplicate copies of the packets on that interface in ...
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rsync: can rsync adjust to the directory layout insteaed of transferring?
I have three systems, but only the target and a outdated mirror are on a fast link.
Master_SLOW:
On a super slow link. Contains a updated directory structure and files
OldMirror_FAST:
On a fast link ...
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