I got a client with an account that contains about 25GB files. I would like to know what's the simplest way to move it from one server to another without losing any file permissions, ownership..etc. I dont really have much space on the current hdd to tar any file. Thanks in advance.

That's a huge amount of data but there might be a possibility for you to FXP from one server to another via FTP.

As I understand it FXP allows you to connect to both hosts, and transfer from one host to another in an interface that is drag and drop. (Doubt permissions will be pulled with it)

When I tried to do this it didnt quite work that well.

The only way I can think that you can do this reasonably is to have the datacenter back up the data to another drive, and have that drive shipped to the other datacenter.

*requesting them to keep a backup of the data until the site is functioning again.

That really is a large amount of data to tar, then wget and as you have mentioned, it might be impossible to do from your location due to space limitations on the host's side.

Have you asked them directly?

Somebody with more server experience might know how to backup the permission settings, then move the data one file at a time, then restore the permissions.

But personally it's way outa my league.

Try

scp -R /path/to/site user@remoteserver:/path/to/site

replacing user with the name of a user that has shell access to that area, and replacing remoteserver with the ip of the server you are copying too.

Originally posted by SplashHost.com
Try

scp -R /path/to/site user@remoteserver:/path/to/site



I got this error message:

scp: invalid option -- R
usage: scp [-pqrvBC46] [-S ssh] [-P port] [-c cipher] [-i identity] f1 f2
or: scp [options] f1 ... fn directory

Eiv, try 'scp -r' (lower case) instead.

-Chris.