Need advice on transfering tons of files

[SlickEddie]

Unfortunately I'm not a linux expert so I don't know how to set up wget to work on the "from" server. Can anyone shed any light?

[sky2k4]

I cant help ya ,But I know we have server junkies in here,lol..Good luck!

[PGZ]

Your server or shared hosting ??

[SlickEddie]

PGZ,

server

the remote server is ip/~user/files/

to my server

[SlickEddie]

I've tried

wget -r user:password@ftp://aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd

and I got a error message .... Resolving "user"... failed: Name or service not known

[PGZ]

No what I meant was are you on your own dedicated or shared hosting ??

[SlickEddie]

I'm on VPS / so not dedicated

[SlickEddie]

DOH, I am on a dedicated

[PGZ]

Is it managed or are you doing it ??

[PGZ]

If managed have your management people make a tar file of them and then take it where ever and open it on the new server.

I think you can do this with just image files with Shell access.

[SlickEddie]

actually, the servers are from two different hosting providers

[PGZ]

It doesnt matter....a tar file is a tar file. If moving the whole site then you just have to make sure the SQL version is the same to the one you are moving to. It wraps the entire site up in one file. Give it to the new host and they should be able to open through the shell access and your done.

[SlickEddie]

PGZ,

thanks for the help...i found the syntax that works for wget on my machine.

wget ftp://username:password@host/file

the sitepoint article had me use

wget username:password@ftp://host/file

[rob]

You should use rsync to do this and not wget...

[George]

what he said.

Also if you have cpanel/WHM built into the receiving server there are tools within that to do it all for you.