mairving — Wed, 10 Dec 2003 20:23:42 +0000

Usually what I do is to:
tar and gzip everything tar cvf - directory/ | gzip > directory.tar.gz
ftp to the site at the SSH shell prompt
ftp sitename or IP address
send the files mput directory.tar.gz
close ftp bye
SSH to the other server and uncompress them:
tar -xvzf directory.tar.gz

I really don't like using CPanel for transfers as it has a tendency to reset permissions.

atulb — Wed, 10 Dec 2003 19:31:20 +0000

I do havve cpnel but i dont know how to transfer using that. how do you make a tarball??

druagord — Wed, 10 Dec 2003 17:13:49 +0000

Or like headbuilder said tar your folder and transfer it using scp

Suzanne — Wed, 10 Dec 2003 16:02:14 +0000

Do you have CPanel?

Because you can backup your server to remote locations using CPanel, including another server. It will gzip the files (all of them) and then you can unzip them at the new location.

atulb — Wed, 10 Dec 2003 13:48:22 +0000

Yea but how would you transfer whole folders instead of individual files.

Wed, 10 Dec 2003 09:07:38 +0000

Do you have a control panel?
If you have cpanel, you can get your host to do the transfer through WHM (in-built function).

If not, you can tar the files in the source folder, use
"scp " where destination is in the form user@domain.com:/destinationfolder
try the man page for scp to know more.