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Originally Posted by LongBG
If your site is on a dedicated server "Or you have shell access" you could do a server
to server transfer. That would for sure be much faster than downloading and uploading again.
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Absolutely. Not only will that be much faster, but it will correctly transfer the files, including the
permissions (chmod) and ownership (chown) rather than just the contents of the files. Downloading
to a Windows desktop and uploading will lose al of the important metadata.
See the bottom half of this page:
https://www.bettercgi.com/cgi-bin/wi...o_A_New_Server
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