linux gurus, please give me syntax fro transfering files between 2 hosts

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What control panel are you using on both hosts? You could have a problem if you're going from say Cpanel to Ensim or to Plesk. If you're using a straight redhat box on both, I can tell you the syntax.

panel on new host is cpanel, on the old host- plesk afair.
system on the new host- Redhat.

transfer the tar
scp /home/klinton/oldstuff.tar [email protected]:/home/klinton/oldstuff.tar

and when I untar this tar all files will have the same directory structure ?

Yes.

have your host move everything for you ?

You can either login to the new server via SSH/telnet and
retrieve the files from the old, ro you can login to the old server
and send them to the new:


To send the files from this server to the other:
tar --gzip --preserve --same-owner --atime-preserve -cvf - |
ssh user@host "cd /; tar --ungzip --preserve --same-owner --atime-preserve -xvf -

or:

To get the files and bring them to this server:
ssh -l root 209.100.120.162 "cd /home2/goldstatsn/accs; tar --gzip --preserve
--same-owner --atime-preserve -cvf - ." |
tar --ungzip --preserve
--same-owner --atime-preserve -xvf -

That will copy the files. You'll need to set up the domains
in the config files o control panel also.
Webmin is the least painful control panel to use for this.

You will then have paths to adjust in .htaccess files, cgi scripts, and php scripts.
If you have ppassword files, message boards, databases,
or other dynamically updated info, you have to do some wierd
manipulations of the DNS so that you don't have people going
to both servers for a couple of days due to DNS caching.

you can also use ttcp


ttcp -r -p 30666 | tar xvpf - -C dirname (on the receiving side, which means attach to port 30666 and
pipe all output to tar, also had to create the destination directory)

tar -cf - -C dirname . | ttcp -t -p 30666 ip

(this is on the sender side - means tar up the dir and pipe to ttcp, then ttcp is told to connect to port 30666 and...

I use rsync. There is probably a couple of hundred ways to move the files over.
http://samba.anu.edu.au/rsync/examples.html

Good advise, your host should have a tech available to help you out.

the last time I did this I used lftp across two bsd boxes....had my tech guy give me the syntax and bamm, was working like a charm...gotta have lftp installed on both sides, however I'm sure there are several ways to do this...

definitely get a tech guy to walk you through it, or hire someone to do it for ya...


personally I like to learn and take notes once a month on new schtuff like that...