Hi. Your best bet would be to log in via SSH (I'm assuming they give you access to this?), and type something like;


You obviously need to change over the username/password/database name/etc.

Then, once you have all your databases backed up (you will need to do this a couple of times, if you have several databases).

Now, you need to backup your whole folder... You need to 'cd' into your 'cgi-bin' folder, and HTML folder first, otherwise the whole server will be backed up (so it will die).


....this will compress all the files, and hold their permissions.

You then need to go into SSH on your new server, and type something like;



This should grab the backup.tar file, with a server-to-server transfer (the fastest method by far, as it cuts out having to download it to your PC first).

Then, you need to decompress it;


.. and thats pretty much it.

You will need to change paths in the scripts, as they will not match up to the new server. The above should hopefully give you a good enough idea on how to move your site :)

Cheers

Andy (mod)
andy@ultranerds.co.uk

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