Moving Files to new hardware

[Alex Zbyslaw]

Jerry McAllister wrote:

>>Is it possible to copy the files from the old server already online 
>>directly to this new server using broadband? What do I need to know 
>>and do to accomplish this? I appreciate any other insight in 
>>transitioning this change over/
>>    
>>
>
>Well, presuming your setup allows both machines to be online at the
>same time - two different connections or internal network or whatever,
>then sure.  It is easy.   Either FTP(1) or SCP(1) work just fine for one 
>time transfers.   There are some others that are good for keeping the 
>two systems up-to-date with each other if you want to do it frequently.
>  
>
You could also investigate rsync (or rdist, or is that deprecated now?) 
which can save you bandwidth if you regularly update one machine from 
another.

--Alex