Topic awaiting preservation: Migration... any easier?

I need to migrate my websites on my domain to another server. I was thinking if I could make a Perl/Shell script to copy the 50+ MB of files I have to my new server over an FTP connection. But I found one problem, I don't know enough Perl or Shell to do it. Is there an easier way? I want to copy all files and folders (including everything under my user and user nobody) to my new server.

I have to be migrated and set all up before the end of this month.

Forgive my possible ignorance on this issue, but couldn't you use pretty much any FTP app to do this with a simple drag and drop?

Yes, I can't quite see what the issue is here. Open up your ftp client, connect to your original site. Download everything. Disconnect, then connect to your new host, upload everything. Done. Any scripts which are hard-coded with absolute URLs will need to be altered, however.


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(Edited by Skaarjj on 10-21-2005 05:33)

I think zavaboy wants to copy them from directly from the old server to the new server.

Can that not be done with an FTP app?

well... you could shell into your original server, use tar and gzip to create an archive, and remember where in your tree it is, then shell into your new server, use wget to download it remotely, unzip and open the tar, hey presto, done.


Justice 4 Pat Richard

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Can that not be done with an FTP app?

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Some of them, but the servers need to support third-party FTP transfers.

Provided you have shell access and it's supported, you can use scp pretty much the same as a cp only a few more on top

scp -r webrootdir/* username@servername.com:/pathToNewWebRoot/.



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I need file permissions intact... this includes files owned by user nobody (PHP). A manual FTP transfer would only take care of stuff I own.

Edit: I do have shell access... on both servers.



(Edited by zavaboy on 10-21-2005 16:01)

Ok, I ran the scp and got all the files over to the new server. Is there any way to perform a search and replace on all files?

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