I am a non-profit who is transferring my site to Netfirms and their "plus" shared hosting plan. All they give me is FTP access, and a silly decompressor webapp called "Archive Gateway" that can decompress .tar
, .zip
, .gz
and .z
.
Netfirms expects me to upload my whole site by FTP.
I'm trying to avoid uploading 20GBs from my puny residential connection.
Netfirms doesn't give me SSH, so running wget
, split
, cat
or ftp
from netfirms is not possible.
My old host gives me SSH access, and I ran ftp
there to send my site-backup.tar
to NetFirms, but this SSH cuts me off when it senses I'm away from the console for several minutes. Only 800MB gets transferred.
I tried using a .PHP script in Netfirms to retrieve site.backup.tar
from the old host but this script times out.
Can tar create split archives of around 500MB each with no files split in between?
Can you suggest how I can transfer 20GB of site data to Netfirms?
In the meantime, I will try to figure out how to archive my 20GB site into several 500MB tar
s.
man nohup
– danlefree Oct 1 '11 at 19:27ftp
requires interactive input, I'm afraid, i.e.,cat script | ftp
doesn't work, so sorrynohup
doesn't work on it either. :( – William C Oct 2 '11 at 5:12