Date: Sat, 29 Nov 1997 02:45:22 +0100 (MEZ) From: Robert Eckardt <roberte@MEP.Ruhr-Uni-Bochum.de> To: ringlord@bbs.dcoisp.net Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Best way to move a large website to another server Message-ID: <199711290145.CAA18067@ghost.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> In-Reply-To: <TCPSMTP.17.11.28.-16.32.36.3047923923.7021@bbs.dcoisp.net> from "ringlord@bbs.dcoisp.net" at "Nov 28, 97 04:32:36 pm"
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It was ringlord@bbs.dcoisp.net who wrote: > Hello all. > I have been given the job to move the contents of a rather large website > about 300 mb of files to my server and host the site. > Here are a few little problems I am having. > First, I figured I would just make a tar.gz file of the entire directory > tree and then transfer the file containing the archive over the network > via ftp. [...] > Thanks for any tidbits and info someone could pass along. If you can ftp the other machine and have enough space on the new server, then just use `tar czf - / | ftp newserver'. You need to set up a .netrc entry for newserver: binary cd /desired_target_dir put - oldserver.tar.gz quit Hope it helps, Robert -- Robert Eckardt \\ FreeBSD -- solutions for a large universe.(tm) RobertE@MEP.Ruhr-Uni-Bochum.de \\ What do you want to boot tomorrow ?(tm) http://WWW.MEP.Ruhr-Uni-Bochum.de/~roberte For PGP-key finger roberte@gluon.MEP.Ruhr-Uni-Bochum.de
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