If I quickly explain what im doing, maybe somebody can help me...as Im totally stuck. Ok, my website is getting 1300 hits per day (590 unique) but its on a shared server and it keeps throwing up errors. So i got a dedicated host and Im having problems getting setup. I just had just the linux os installed, found out about putty and logged in as root. Then i used this command: wget --mirror ftp://username:password@server_ip/mydomain.com Which worked great and i managed to get the data over fine. I dont know how to check using putty, but i fired up cuteftp on my pc and setup and account using the same details. I found it difficult using the command line, so got cpanel installed. I lost my data, so used the same command again but i cant get via cuteftp. I logged into my cpanel - but couldnt find the data? I was told i need to setup an ftp account within WHM...which i did...but was only left with a few folders (ie html, www. etc). Last time the wget command automatically put it all in a folder with the ip of my old host. Any ideas? My server was down and the guys need to put in a new board and cpu...plus a reinstall. So i will need to transfer the data back over...would love to get this all working as the shared host is throwing up errors and im afriad im gonna loose customers. Sorry about it being so long winded. Cheer
if both side are still up and use cpanel there's an easy way to trasnfer your data. else i can help you on other way let me know if you need more assistance
Hey, thanks for getting back so quickly DnHype . My old host doesnt support anything bar ftp...I found a transfer thing in cpanel on the new host - but it requries some special secure login if i remember correctly. My host is currently down at the moment...should be up in a day or so. Any ideas?
If your current host is down with our data you will not be able to get it until they are back up and running..
Yeah, they are still rebuilding the server...just wanted to see if anybody had an idea before it came back up. I feel im driving customers away cause of my $hit server (current shared host). Do you know what I mean in my explanation a couple of posts up?
If your old host has cPanel then you can transfer your entire account including database and emails using WHM. Go to WHM -> Transfer account with account password. Enter your old host's IP address, your username and password. Kailash
Nope, old host is a shared host plan...i asked their tech staff and they told me they only support ftp download. Thats why a guy from a forum thats good with linux suggested the wget command. Any other ideas
when your server gets back on line just but your full back up in your public diectpory change permissions to 755 and then in your new server ssh as root wget http://www.yourdomain/backup-8.13.2008_04-39-10_username.tar.gz <----your back up url then restore it /scripts/restorepkg username
Worked a treat, thanks for all the help folks! Now I need to install the scipts and *hope* that it all works like it did before! Thanks again
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