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[uamuzeme]

First of all. I have found answers to almost every question I've had on this forum. And I'm happy no one just says RTFM.

Ok, I'm moving a site from an unknown set up to cpanel on a vps. All I have from the old host is a gzip of the files and folders. Not of the account information. I want to know if I can use SSH to grab the files from the old host and unzip them on the new host. So I don't have to download/upload them, I'm lazy like that.

I did find an old post that explaned a little:

ssh to the old server


for the php, html...etc... i use

tar cf public_html.tar public_html

for the databases

mysqldump --opt -uUSERNAME -p databasename > /path/to/dump.sql

move them to a folder and tar cf again...

after that... try gzip to compress more


now you will have all the data....it's time to restore them on the new server

ssh to the new server

wget h**p://the_old_server_file....

on your directory

to extract gz use

tar -zxvf whatever.gz

when you want to restore your databases... use

mysql -uUSERNAME -p newdbname < /path/to/dump.sql

good luck

Would this method work for what I'm doing? I'm new to SSH but I'm a quick learner.

Thanks for the help!

[uamuzeme]

Never mind, the old host doesn't want to corporate. I'll just plod through in ftp.