Re: [cobalt-users] Transfering a Site to a RAQ3i

[flash22@xxxxxxx]

On Fri, 7 Jul 2000, Christopher VanOosterhout wrote:
> 
> I hope this question is appropriate to the list.
> 
> I have a couple small sites on my RAQ3i and it seems to be working 
> fine.  Now I would like to work to move my primary site over to the RAQ3i.
> 
> This site contains thousands of pages in dozens of directories and probably 
> hundreds of sub directories.
> 
> In Windows there is a program called WS FTP that will duplicate directory 
> structures so basically if I say "GET" it all, it will put everything over 
> to the new system into proper folders.  However I have not seemed to find 
> anything that will do that in UNIX ... am I just missing it?  I was told 
> that ncftp would do it, but after I installed it, it appears that it will 
> not take and duplicate directory structures.
> 
> Another alternative although not a very good one for me (because of my 
> extremely slow connection here) is to down load the entire site to my local 
> machine (from my current ISP) and then re upload it the RAQ3i.  I hate the 
> idea of doing this ... but even more so, I hate the idea of manually 
> creating and transferring 100s of directories worth of data ... it would be 
> nice to click one button and have all of the mkdir commands and transfers 
> to the RAQ done automatically ... does that make sense?  Do you have any 
> suggestions?
> 

glue them all up with winzip and then use unzip on the server :)