I need to move a huge database file from one server to another. Rather than ftp the file from the old server, onto my computer, then onto the new server, I'd prefer to ftp it directly between the servers. I remember once seeing a short perl script (only a few lines) that could do just that. The script was run command line. Does anyone know how this is done? If not, are there any any other ways of moving the files between servers? Thanks! Katina

wget via Telnet/SSH?

From the old server, you would use something like this;


...to make a dump of your database.


There are a few options with wget:


...gives a list of flags.

Hope that helps.

Cheers

Andy (mod)
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Check out the Net::FTP module - it should have what you need. If you want a more secure method, I would suggest using SSH and the Expect module or, even better, rsync via SSH.

-gordon

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