Problems backing up...alternative

[devGOD]

Ok, i'm moving servers and i have a large community site that keeps failing during the move process.

My last option is to just Tar the /home/SITE folder and use the fullbackup i created in WHM for that site. Which would create the account and restore all the mysql stuff....

my question is what shell command would i user to tar all files/folders with chmod and chown kept in tack..?

 

[dafut]

Can't you back it up in cPanel to the Home Directory, then transfer with FTP?

From the command line: tar -czvf site.tar.gz /home/SITE

To extract: tar -zxvfp site.tar.gz

The -p flag retains permissions.

 

[devGOD]

i tried having cpanel back it up /script/cpbackup and it said something about server load bing to high.

 

[devGOD]

ok this is taking way to long... my site is. 7.7g is there a way to make the tar not compress the data and just backup everything up?

 

[streigh]

ok this is taking way to long... my site is. 7.7g is there a way to make the tar not compress the data and just backup everything up?

The z is for compression - don't use z and you wont be compressing


If you want a headache - type tar --help
I believe the term is "information overload"

Now - is anyone aware of something that will provide as complete a possible a backup of a virtual host, with an FTP server being on the receiving end of that backup?

I want the ability to have the server re-provisioned, setup my backup solution and restore all configuration, accounts, settings logs and data.

The thing has to exist - but my searches keep getting overloaded by the number of FTP clients and backups that aren't what I'm looking for.