From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 28 17:45:45 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id RAA24182 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 28 Nov 1997 17:45:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from ghost.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de (ghost.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de [134.147.6.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA24176 for ; Fri, 28 Nov 1997 17:45:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from roberte@ghost.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de) Received: (from roberte@localhost) by ghost.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de (8.8.5/8.8.4) id CAA18067; Sat, 29 Nov 1997 02:45:23 +0100 (MEZ) From: Robert Eckardt Message-Id: <199711290145.CAA18067@ghost.mep.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> Subject: Re: Best way to move a large website to another server In-Reply-To: from "ringlord@bbs.dcoisp.net" at "Nov 28, 97 04:32:36 pm" To: ringlord@bbs.dcoisp.net Date: Sat, 29 Nov 1997 02:45:22 +0100 (MEZ) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31H (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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