From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 28 15:31:30 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id PAA17096 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 28 Nov 1997 15:31:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from bbs.dcoisp.net (bbs.dcoisp.net [208.128.192.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id PAA17091 for ; Fri, 28 Nov 1997 15:31:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ringlord@bbs.dcoisp.net) From: ringlord@bbs.dcoisp.net Received: from MHS by bbs.dcoisp.net with MHS id BACACFAI ; Fri, 28 Nov 1997 16:33:04 -0500 Date: Fri, 28 Nov 1997 16:32:36 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: Best way to move a large website to another server To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. I was told that this website had "unlimited" disk space, so I thought that creating a tar.gz file would work. After receiving an error that read, gzip: stdout: quota limit exceeded, broken pipe, I decided to check the quota they had on them. Typing quota only reveiled a command not found error. Sheesh. Anyway, I knew then that the only way I could see would be to use the mget * command to transfer all the files over via ftp. I ran into a small problem which is more of an annoyance than anything else. When I use the the mget * command, ftp seems to no that directories also need to be transferred, and it seems to make the distinction between directories and files. But, ftp will report a local: file not found, if it tries to transfer a file from a directory on the remote machine if the same directory on the local machine does not exist. Is there anyway that I can tell ftp to just go ahead and create each directory on the local machine if it encounters the same directory name on the remote machine? I would like to preserve all directories in hole, which would have been accomplished with tar. Is there another way that I am missing that would be much simpler than the method described above? Thanks for any tidbits and info someone could pass along. Jeremy