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I recently had to migrate a big website – about 5GB – to a new server. That could take a while to do, right? Well, maybe if you did it like that (the not smart way):

Oh man, that would take sooo much time...

Thanks goodness I’m not really keen on doing stuff the slow “not_smart” way, and the new server is a dedicated CentOS machine! :-) So, what did I do?

Yeah, no time wasted here!

There’s a lot of ways to accomplish this if you have shell access. You could:

1. wget -r --user=login --password='pass' ftp://admin:example.com/folder/

2. ncftp #normal ftp should also work the same way
   open ftp://example.com
   login
   pass
   mget -r folder

3. Yes, SCP is a great tool for this kind of situation, but i couldn’t use it since the old server didn’t have ssh acces :-( Here is how it could be used in such a situation:

   scp -r login@old.example.com:/home/folder login@new.example.com:/home/folder

I used the second method and am quite satisvied with it, as the servers did all the migrating i set up the database and did some other project related stuff… :-)