Site Transfer

[Aaron]

I have about a million files that I need to transfer from another server that I am on. I really don't feal like downloading all of them to my hard drive, then uploading them all to the FQ server. Is there an easier way of doing it? Perhaps zipping it up on the server, then just downloading the zip file, and unzipping it on FQ or something? That would make a great way of backing up the data too. If not zipping it, is there a way to make a TAR file of the files?
Thanks for any help!
Aaron

[Deb]

Personally I would telnet into the FQ server and FTP to your other server then download straight from the other server into your FQ directory. (this bypasses your local dial-up so you would be transferring from one high speed line to the other w/o worrying about your local connection speed)

You'll find a quicky tutorial (not pretty but it should do the trick) for how to do this at http://linus.chem.wesleyan.edu/~mbjc.../unix_ftp.html

Deb

[hearts]

if ya want, you can have FQ do it for ya! LOOK at this page:

http://www.FutureQuest.net/Packages.php and look for Value Added Services (it will be listed last in that section)

Physical Site Transfer - $30 one-time
Moving the existing web site (as is) to the FQ server

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[Aaron]

Thanks guys!

[ChrisH]

Yes, if you just have all one million files
in one directory, straight ftp can be OK.
use

prompt

to turn off the comfirmations then use

mget *

to get all the files at once. Note that
I don't think ftp will bring executables over
with the same permissions. I think they
come over as not executables. If you
are going UNIX to UNIX then use binary
transfer and everything will be fine. If
you are going from Win to UNIX then binary
will screw up the text files and you'll
need to do text and binary separate.
And if you have subdirectories you'll
have to do all that by hand.

A tar file may be easier. You can try
it on FQ with your new account and some
dummy files, but I think basically it
goes like this:

tar cvf myfiles.tar .

in the top directory of yours. This creates a tar file of all files in
your current directories, and all
directories and files underneath it. Then

tar xvf myfiles.tar

after you FTP the myfiles.tar file over to
FQ. This recreates all files and
directories again. You might
want to try it and see how it goes.
You can move whole trees around in
UNIX with just the mv command, so
you can set up a dir below your login
dir and try things there. You can then
move things up, or blast the test dir
and then unpack the tar in your real
home dir. You also might have to think
about how much space the tar file and
all the unpacked files will take.

Good Luck, welcome to FQ!

ch