CuteFTP Question

[mrdon]

I am using CuteFTP Pro 2.0, and what I am wanting to do is transfer a large site of mine from one host to another.

My question is... is there a way to download the entire site and then upload it to the new host, and maintain all of the file properties (ie. 655, 777, file properties)?

Thanks,
Brandon

[Technosailor]

do you have shell on both servers? If so I can tell you how to do it server to server without cuteftp

[mrdon]

I do on the new one, not sure on the current one.

Brandon

[Technosailor]

if you have it on the old one login and tar the data up:

bash$ tar -cvf files.tar *
bash$ gzip files.tar

SSH into the old server and use SFTP to pull the tarball from the old server:

bash$ sftp shelluser@oldserver.com
Password: <enter>

sftp> get /path/to/files.tar.gz
sftp> exit

bash$ quit

[mrdon]

Thanks, that worked. Is there anyway to unpack them on the new server, and maintain the same file structure?

Thanks,
Brandon

[Technosailor]

tar zxvf files.tar.gz

[mrdon]

I seem to be getting an error when I try the above command:

gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file
tar: Child returned status 1
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

Thanks,
Brandon