What is the best method to transfer files from one server to another?
 

Like the thread tittle says. I need to send large files from my server to my customer's server directly. I am not having much luck trying to FTP server to server. Any help???





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There is a program that does it piecemeal. I forget what it's called though. Basically you put the file in one folder, and it copies it in chunks. This is for large farms though.

If it fails, it re-tries the sections that don't work.

ftp via ssh.

I would just use Smart FTP

If you have ssh access to both machines tar them up

tar -pcvzf thefiles.tar.gz *

transfer from your server to his via secure copy command
scp thefiles.tar.gz user@serveraddress:/remote/path/to/place/files/

untar the files (permissions will be intact)
tar -pxvzf thefiles.tar.gz

lots more info on google

What if my customer doesnt have ssh access? I have tried scp but get rejected from their server.

So I can use ssh to ftp to his server???

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Put them in a public directory and tell the customer to use wget.

Can they use wget without shell access?

Yep.

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Yes wget works great. Get Putty, telnet into the receiving server, then do the command wget www.target.com/files.tar.gz et voila. You will be amazed about the transfer speed between servers :-)

sweet!!!! Thanks guys!!

Hold on a sec, I misread what you said. The customer has no access to the commandline on their server?

sftp :2 cents:

Yes, the customer does not have shell access.

I have on my server, but the server I want to transfer files to does not. When I try to ssh or telnet the connection gets cut.

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Thanks uno, I am giving it a try

What system ?
Linux, mc and ssh.

FTP on both ends.

scp or rsync

Does anyone know of a good server to server back-up tool by the way? cPanel can do this but you can't select the files you want to back-up, it's all or nothing. I need a tool that only synchronizes the directories selected by me.

And I hope you'll sort it out Charlie.

Winner, rsync has better support for interrupted downloads too (AKA resume).

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Thanks, I haven't yet. No problems with ssh access enabled servers... but it seems vps transfers will not work.

rsync....