Moving servers

[stroke25]

Im following the guide here http://www.vbulletin.com/docs/html/moving_servers

I cant get past this problem here. I put the path to the dump on machine 1 and it says no such file or directory.

ftp> put /home/mysite/backup/jun17.sql
local: /home/mysite/backup/jun17.sql remote: /home/mysite/backup/jun17.sql
227 Entering Passive Mode (xxx,xxx,xx,xxx,xxx,6).
550 /home/mysite/backup/jun17.sql: No such file or directory

[Steve Machol]

That means that the path you are using doesn't exist or there is no file by that name in that directory. Why don't you just upload it to the directory you are in?

[stroke25]

The path to the dump is correct though.

[INDENT]bin
cd [B]/PATH/TO/NEW/DIRECTORY[/B]
put [B]/PATH/TO/DUMP.SQL[/B]
[/INDENT]

I put
bin
cd /www
put /home/MYSITE/backup/mydump.sql

The dump is there and im using the proper path/file name ect.

[Steve Machol]

Did you try not using the path and just uploading the file to the current directory? It dosn't matter which directory it's in.

[stroke25]

Just tried that gave same message,

[Steve Machol]

Then this error says it all:

550 /home/mysite/backup/jun17.sql: No such file or directory

Sorry I don't know what else to recommend.

[stroke25]

this is what i dont understand..I put a incorrect path and get this error:


local: /backup/jun17.sql remote: /backup/jun17.sql
local: /backup/jun17.sql: No such file or directory

Then i put the correct path and get this:

local: /home/mysite/backup/jun17.sql remote: /home/mysite/backup/jun17.sql
227 Entering Passive Mode (xxx,xxx,xx,xxx,xxx,6).
550 /home/mysite/backup/jun17.sql: No such file or directory

[Colin F]

Just to make sure: you are logged in with SSH to your old server?

Another option would be to download the database backup to your computer with an FTP software and to reupload it with an FTP software to the new server. Some servers also allow server to server transfers...

[stroke25]

yes ssh on old server...I would just download if the backup wasnt so large..Its over a gb.

[Colin F]

Another option would be to use something like wget on the new server to fetch the data.
Here's the wget manual, but I don't know it well enough to tell you exactly what command to use.

[Zachery]

After you tar and or gzip your file(s) / folder(s) as long as you have put this file into a publicly accessable directory you can use wget to fetch the file

wget http://www.website.com/path/to/file.tar.gz

[stroke25]

thanks i will try that.. One last question..Any idea why this is putting the same path for both local and remote?

local: /home/mysite/backup/jun17.sql remote: /home/mysite/backup/jun17.sql
227 Entering Passive Mode (xxx,xxx,xx,xxx,xxx,6).
550 /home/mysite/backup/jun17.sql: No such file or directory

Im pretty sure that my problem but dont know why its using the same path.

[George L]

what ftp user priveleges are on new server ? can you access files up in /home on new server with that ftp username/password ? did you create /home/mysite/backup

assuming jun17.sql exists at /home/mysite/backup on old server

try

cd /home/mysite/backup
ftp newserver.com
ftp> cd /newserver/path/thatexists
ftp> put jun17.sql