how do I transfer 40gb between 2 servers?

**dimensio** · 10-13-2009, 11:29 AM

Hi,
I have my old server with 40gb of vital files on it and a new one which is hosted elsewhere. I need to transfer the files across.

The old server has debian 5/virtualmin, the new one has WHM/cpanel

I tried running a backup in virtualmin, but it said it couldn't do it.

I tried using flashfxp, but it didn't work and gave an error message.

any ideas will be very very very appreciated. I'm completely stuck

thanks

**rednimaT** · 10-13-2009, 11:32 AM

you can download a PHP transfer script (Google it, there are many available).
they will run in the background.

**dimensio** · 10-13-2009, 11:57 AM

reason I am transferring servers is PHP doesn't work on it as apache module isn't configured correctly for that mime type. any other ideas?

**tripy** · 10-13-2009, 07:02 PM

Do you have shell / ssh / remote desktop access to both machines ?
And if yes, which os is installed on them ?

**dimensio** · 10-13-2009, 07:23 PM

Hi,
thanks for trying to help. Yes I have shell access (SSH) access.

OD? what is oD? They are running

Debian linux 5 + virtualmin on source server and
CentOS / WHM on the destination server

I still haven't managed to transfer the files. I really need something that will transfer the whole folder, as their are lots of individual files, so I don't really want to use get: and go through every one seperately.

**tripy** · 07:43 PM

Quote:

OD? what is oD? They are running

My bad, this was a typo. It was OS, not OD.

From your standpoint, I see 2 solutions:
1) scp (ssh copy)

Code:

ssh user@oldComputer
cd /my/directory
scp -r . user@newComputer:/my/new/directory

This will copy recursively every files from the 1st computer to the second via ssh

2)

Code:

ssh user@oldComputer
cd /my/directory
tar cvzf backup.tgz .
scp backup.tgz user@newComputer:/my/new/directory
logoff oldComputer
ssh user@newComputer
cd /my/new/directory
tar xvzfp backup.tgz

This creates a backup on the first computer, send it to the new one.
Then you log on the new computer and decompress the backup.

Those are the 2 first methods that come to my mind.
Of course, I consider that you just need to move files from 1 precise directory.
If you need several, then you'll need to compose from there.
The same for the databases, if you want to copy them, you will need to mmake a dump sql file first, then copy the file, and then reimport on the new server

**Brian07002** · 11:45 AM

I really don't know why you do it the hard way
gZip the folder that includes all subs. That's always the easiest and safest way

**dimensio** · 10-14-2009, 03:27 PM

Hi,
what command do I execute to gzip an entire folder?? please give an example. the folder is

home/public_html/downloads/

**tripy** · 10-14-2009, 03:56 PM

Make an archive with this:

Code:

tar cvzf myArchive.tgz /home/user/directoryToArchive

and to restore on the other machine

Code:

cd /place/to/restore
tar xvzf myArchive.tgz

And remember that if you are unsure of the arguments, you always (or almost) have the "man" command:

Code:

man tar [enter]
TAR(1)                                tar                               TAR(1)



NAME
       tar - The GNU version of the tar archiving utility

SYNOPSIS
       tar <operation> [options]

       Operations:
       [-]A --catenate --concatenate
       [-]c --create
       [-]d --diff --compare
       [-]r --append
       [-]t --list
       [-]u --update
       [-]x --extract --get
       --delete

       Common Options:
       -C, --directory DIR
       -f, --file F
....

**dimensio** · 10-16-2009, 10:04 AM

I am getting the following error:

Code:

/public_html/downloads: No such file or directory
downloads@ks000197:~/public_html/downloads$ scp -r . gt6@94.23.000.128 /downloads
/downloads: No such file or directory
downloads@ks000197:~/public_html/downloads$

If you can do this for me, I will happily send you $10 via paypal.If your willing to help me by doing this, Email me(theilluminated@gmail.com) as I can't send private messages as I don't have enough posts.

**tripy** · 10-16-2009, 10:26 AM

the syntax is wrong.
Add a semicolon between the destination host and path.

Code:

scp -r . gt6@94.23.000.128:/downloads