Hi, I have a website that I'm transfering from my old web host to another web host. I've had a slight problem as the parcial backup on the cPanel backed up most of my stuff but not the home directory. If I did a full backup on my host server, how/what would be best to transfer the zipped backup file to the new host? FTP? is it too big of a file to transfer? is there something else I can do? I need some advice from you guys....
Keep in mind that a Full backup can only be restore by root, so if you do not have root access to the server, you will need to ask your hosting provider to do this for you. I would just FTP the file to your new host and have them restore that file for you. Do you know if you have SSH access to the old host or new?
I belive the best tool in this situation is support team of the web hosting company you are transferring to.
install net2ftp script in your host and move files to another host. backup your database and restore on your new host.
I had 48G to transfer, what I did was, TAR SSH it, to make the nice chunk bits. Then, I used wget to transfer the thing (over 12 hours). Granted it took a hell of a long time, but hey, I hope NEVER to do it again.
Your best option is to do server to server transfer, if the zip exists on your old hosting provider, just move it to your public_html folder, and after you get your order completed and site setup on new host, do not not change nameservers till you have file transferred. Ask your new host to wget yoursite/yourfile to your sites folder, and extract it to separate folder, you can simply than just move files/folders around using any ftp client.
take it easy: just ask your new web hosting company to transfer all files to the new company. I'm certain they will do that with pleasure.