Greetings! I have two dedicated servers, and I am trying to move everything from my older server to the newest server that I just ordered (20 gigs of files to be exact). I am using WS FTP Pro v9.0 which allows me to transfer files from one server to another server. However, when I attempt to do this, nothing happens. The files don't move, and the server times out from no activity. Does anyone know what I could be doing wrong? The tech guy claims it's something wrong with the ftp client I am using.

Any help is greatly appreciated!
John

Log into the new server with SSH and use FTP from the command line to retreive the files from the old server.

Wouldn't that defeat the purpose?! I can log onto both servers and view all files and folders in both windows using FTP Pro. According to the program, all I have to do is drag and drop the files from the old server to the new one. But this isn't working.... I am just trying to keep it simple, and not reinvent any wheels.

What gives?! Thanks for your response though.

you have two dedicated servers that are your responsibility alone? I suggest you learn some command line utilities. What you're trying to do with a remote FTP client will not work very well and will be incredibly slow.

What was mentioned above is the simplet solution to accomplish your task. Rsync is even better (and possibly much faster).

type in at the command prompt 'man ftp' if these are Linux machines. If your on windows I wouldn't know. Don't use them.

id use SCP or rsync without a doubt, rsync would make exact copy of the files in the remote location and you can do direct server <> server

rsync -avz -e ssh

somthing like that...

rsync -ave ssh root@remote-ip:/remote-dir/ /local-dir/
to be exact

I was snipey on that post wasn't I? I don't know what got into me.

I apologize, I should have completed that reply above... Thanks Gary and eth00

(by the way eth00 - thanks for all that kernel help awhile back. Didn't pan out, there were some issues with the hardware and I moved into a new machine which - by the way- I compiled a mono kernel for)

I don't mind saying that at times but rsync can take a little more time to look through the man pages because of all the options you need. Also I was just rsync'ing some stuff on a server so made it easy to copy/paste it in

Geez, eth00 appears to be able to read minds and post a quote of my future statements. You're a scarey dude!

from new box:
scp -r root@oldboxip:/path/ /path/

from old box:
scp -r /path/ root@newboxip:/path/

Thanks for all your help. I got it done pretty quickly using the scp to move all the files.

Much appreciated!!

Oh THAT crap!

What I did is download everything from server 1 via FTP to my own hard-drive, then re-upload to server 2 via FTP from my hard-drive (get a mouse-movement simulator, it can take a few hours).
It sure was easier than learning commandlines, drag and drop, go cut your grass or wash your car or something, then it's done.
btw, you'll need a good ftp program with a solid 'auto' function that knows which files are ascii and which binary... Then you still gotta Chmod a few things, too.