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Originally Posted by SweetT
I know that you are one of my customers but I also know that you host things other places as well so I will answer this as if you were not my customer. My suggestion is to contact your host and ask about options. I know that some hosts will allow you to send them a external hard drive and they will back up the entire thing on that hard drive and ship it back to you (although it may come at a minimal fee). Another option is to tar it up and download the entire thing (this of course will help the hosting company because it burns bandwidth). There are even more options than these two but they all have a common theme....contact your host and let the System Administrators help you. That is what they are there for ;)
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Thanks for that, I know I could and probably should let them do it. I'm the type of person that likes to learn this stuff and do it for myself.
This isn't a move, just a back up.
So far I've learnt to tar the whole thing but the filesize was huge. So I figured out to split them and it downloaded by ftp alot quicker that way. I was going to bring it across to a virtual account once per week, but I noticed when they moved me onto this server I used 65mbps and I doubt any host will let me do that without my own server.
Now the only thing I need to learn is how to put those peaces together again.
Nat Net kindly gave me a root username and pass for mysql but the dump all databases option isn't dumping anything. I'm now reading various sites which all say that same thing!
Eventually I'll ask the tecks how to do it, but I like to try to learn as much as I can myself. I learnt PHP this way and it came in very usefull
