Shell Access?

[Mel]

I'm allready sold.. but I think this goes here...

 

Is the following possible/acceptable? (I copied this post from another message board talking about switching hosts)

 

sefu wrote:

I've moved like 4 or 5 host now. I always read about compressing it in tar and moving the .tar file over to the new server and uncompress it there. But never really understood how or what commands I need to uncompress it on the new server?

I've always just moved the raw files over, takes longer but thats the only way i knew

 

 

I use a nifty little GUI SSH utility that i install on the server, fileman :

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/scripts/fileman/

(free!)

 

I just click on the directories or files i want to add to a tarball, and then click on the tar button.

 

I then use my other fileman installation at my other server, and issue the following command to pull the tar file remotely:

wget http://www.domain.com/backup.tar.gz

 

Then, to untar it, i issue this command:

tar -zxvf backup.tar.gz

 

Of course, your hosting provider has to allow you to run the gui shell (some hosts dont allow shell access).

 

I do this all the time to backup a 'live' copy of my site over to a different domain space for testing new modules. Im on a dialup connection, and it saves me LOTS of time from having to download and reupload all the files..

 

Do we get shell access? Dont know anything about tars etc... but I have 19 domains to move this weekend, and dont want to do it via ftp! woooot

 

Is this a viable way to go about it?

[TCH-Don]

Hi Mel,

first welcome to the family. Thumbs Up

 

As to shell access

look at the help site for two possibilities.