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is there a quicker way?
If you are transferring *lots* of files, any FTP-type transfer will take forever with more than a few thousand files.
use wget if you can, or FTP locally, then to the new server
You generally need root access to run it - I mention it only in that it will save you having to download the tarball to your local PC and then back to the server (i.e. it is a direct server to server transfer and will be twice as fast, plus you are not being limited by your ISP's transfer speed cap)
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Bear in mind that it is a non-secure transfer (as is FTP) - if you have sensitive data you'd be advised to use SFTP or SCP
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I am not sure of the technical details but can you not use Ghost to move the files. I think that is one of the safest and fastest ways.
wget is just a program provided on pretty much all linux systems (I assume you are not on a Windows system)
You generally need root access to run it
Bear in mind that it is a non-secure transfer (as is FTP) - if you have sensitive data you'd be advised to use SFTP or SCP
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Norton Ghost. As far as I know you can back up from one server and then load to the other.
i'm a bit behind on technical terms, but how do i know?
If you don't know whether or not you have root access, then it's 99.9% likely that you don't.
Your best bet will probably be to ask your current host to create the tarball for you and place it in a public folder, then ask your new host to retrieve and restore the files.
a bit pricy to save a few hours of time
True but I once moved servers without it and during the move some files messed up. Since then any server move must be done with ghost for me anyway.
