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



At 20:50 10/07/00 -0400, flash22@xxxxxxx wrote:
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?
>

I work for an ISP. We have done this recently from one unix server to 10 RaQ3i's - about 1000 sites to move!!!

We created an NFS (network file system) from each RaQ to the old server, and then simply copied using
' cp -pr <oldsitedir> /home/sites/<newsitedir>/web/ '

Worked a treat.

Of course, any sites with the Frontpage server extensions had to be re-published. I created a 'tar ball' of all the sites from the parent directory. I then gzip'd that file FTP'ed it to my machine, untared and unziped the sites, changed the DNS and re-published the site. Wow... what a mouthful.



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