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[mahi]

Hi all..

i have a shared hosting account on godaddy .. which i want to transfer to own vps

whats the best solution??

i tried to make zip file but godaddy dont allow more than 25MB to be zipped!

i have to transfer 65GB files

any advice will be much appreciate

Thanks..

[CoderJosh]

You can use FTP, just use a mirror script or an interactive FTP client like mc on your VPS that allows recursive transfers, connect to your shared account and fetch your files. You could also get SSH access enabled and use SFTP.

[net]

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[mahi]

Originally Posted by CoderJosh

You can use FTP, just use a mirror script or an interactive FTP client like mc on your VPS that allows recursive transfers, connect to your shared account and fetch your files. You could also get SSH access enabled and use SFTP.

Thanks for your reply mate...

If i login my vps by using SSH ..

whats gona be the command ??

[cloudmarina]

Do you have shell access to your account in godaddy? You can try the scp option to copy the file from your shared account to the VPS, or you can use the rsync. Do it after running screen

[asciiDigital]

I don't think he does. You're going to have to FTP the files over to your VPS manually. It's going to take a while.

[yourwebhostereu]

FTP:
wget ftp://username:password@host/* -R

It will download all the files in that dir.

[mahi]

Originally Posted by yourwebhostereu

FTP:
wget ftp://username:password@host/* -R

It will download all the files in that dir.

is possible to save file in a particular directory ??

[yourwebhostereu]

Originally Posted by mahi

is possible to save file in a particular directory ??

use the -O option, however wget will create the dir with the servername and the path. After transferring you can just do mv and move the files to the correct place.

[mahi]

some how my password has (@) like m@hi .. so its not getting password correctly and showing error..

any help mate ???

[Vinayak_Sharma]

Keep it simple, for the time being change the pass to something simple.

[mahi]

i got the solution

Thanks to all for reply...

solution is here -

ftp: wget --ftp-user=dumbass --ftp-password="p@sSwoRd" -r ftp://example.com/*

[aquatix]

Just to mention another option, you could also use ncftp, it's a command line FTP client... Start it with

ncftp

on the shell of your VPS, then do

open -u username example.com

It will ask you for the password and when you're logged in, you do

get -R *

and it will retrieve all files. A bit more complicated than using wget, but it allows for finer debugging (I think, never used wget for FTP tbh) if there's an error during transfer etc.

Cheers,
Chris