Server Migration 101
 

Hi

I need to move content from couple of my dedicated boxes to a new one. Anyone has some tutorials handy for server migration?

Each server has around 10-15 domains. There are a lot of php/mysql sites as well. Mainly wordpress and a couple with Autogallery SQL and WSN Links.

Of course, the easy way would be to use FTP and then PHPMyAdmin to dump the databases. But since I have over 5 Gigs in content, and there are loads of subdomains that need to be moved, it would become quite a tiresome task! So if someone has already gone through this before, I would really appreciate the help.

Any help would be appreciated.

Regards
Pankaj

I always get my host to do it for me, but rsync is your friend.

SSH into your new server

rsync -avCp --exclude "Foo" USERNAME@OLDSERVER.com:/PATH/TO/OLD/STUFF /PATH/TO/NEW/STUFF

Enter your password to the old server when prompted

rsync
Basically you can push data from your old server to your new server. your host should do this for you.


sample code:
login to old server and run this command
rsync -zave ssh /usr/local/apache/sites root@domain.com:/usr/local/apache

the above command would push the /sites directory from your old server to the /apache directory on your new server.