How to Transfer a Large Folder from One Server to Another

[TruePaige]

Hello, ATOT Gurus.

I'm trying to migrate a website to a more capable server, and the website is used for image manipulation / hosting.

It has around ~150GB of images on it currently.

Here is what I'm trying to do...

I want to move the master folder that all the images are in to a new server with the following restriction:

Do not have root access to either server, and cannot install any software. Just have a standard LAMP stack to work with.

Any ideas as to the best way to move them?

edit: It's just a standard web hosting package pretty much, so I can only run things on it that you would be able to run on say DreamHost or 1and1. Trying to figure out the least painful thing to do.

 

[funkymatt]

batch file with xcopy and then /v to verify.

 

[iroast]

On the source server, type:

rsync -essh --archive --delete --verbose --update /home/user1/source_dir/ target_host:/home/user1/target_dir/

Make a cron job out of it. Things should go faster since it'll update files.

 

[her209]

scp

 

[Crusty]

rsync

 

[krylon]

fxp

 

[FP]

rdiff-backup

 

[Barfo]

ctrl x, ctrx v [/clown]

 

[silverpig]

wget?

 

[DayLaPaul]

Originally posted by: krylon
fxp

That's what I would do.

 

[Red Squirrel]

If it's a move of hosts, just tar up the entire thing into one huge file, then scp it over. Make sure you do it data center to data center, so you'll be getting faster speeds then if you download it home first.