back up website to files or zip?

Discussion in 'Site & Server Administration' started by IamNed, Mar 8, 2006.

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    I have a large website and I would liketo move it to a new host but I dont want to have to move every file individually sicne that could take a month since the site is very big.

    Is there a way to take an entire site with all the subfolders and put in a zip or something so it can easily be moved to a new host?

    Is there an admin feature or a software that does this? Thanks.
     
    IamNed, Mar 8, 2006 IP
  2. rotren

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    If you are on a Linux server, you can use
    tar cvfz archive.tar.gz mydirectory/
    Then you get a compressed tar archive that you can then uncompress later with
    tar xvfz archive.tar.gz
     
    rotren, Mar 8, 2006 IP