hi there i just moved to VPS . i want to download all my old site from old hosting using ssh ftp command . i used: mget -i *.* but with this command i get only the file in the root folder subfolder are not inculded .is there any better way to downlaod all folder and subfolder together ?? Thanks
probably that is happening because your old hosting service is not giving your full accesss via SSH, in which case you will not be able to do what you want.
You might want to look into rsync, I look on google for it everytime when I need todo something like this
You should try this command wget filename as far as i know you canot transfer mutliple files at one time through ssh but if you have any control panel then you can transfer your sites through whm or whatever control panel you have.. Saad
Gzip and Tar everything then upload it and then uncompress it. You can create small backups using this method too.