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Posted by vickydepp, 01-12-2008, 05:56 AM
Hello, I've been recently trying to move an account between servers, but the backup file is always incomplete. I was told that it is possible there are too many files. I decided to tar some of them and move manually, but I cannot access the tar file. I already changed all permissions (644), owner, group, but I still get 403 Forbidden error. Is it possible that the file is too big (9 BGs), and if it is, how do I change the file size limit? Thank you in advance, Vicky
Posted by ub3r, 01-12-2008, 06:02 AM
yes, 9gb is too big to be transferred via http. Apache can't handle files that big. Transfer it via sftp.
Posted by amdcomms, 01-12-2008, 07:21 AM
If your using cpanel to transfer the sites it only supports accounts up to 250 meg.
Posted by ub3r, 01-12-2008, 07:39 AM
you're wrong.
Posted by Dougy, 01-12-2008, 09:35 AM
I transferred a 25 GB file in cPanel.
Posted by sirius, 01-12-2008, 12:39 PM
Moved to Technical and Security Issues.... Sirius
Posted by vickydepp, 01-12-2008, 01:05 PM
Thank you for all answers. Could you please give me some tips on how do I transfer files via sftp? Thanks.
Posted by bitserve, 01-12-2008, 03:07 PM
Hey Mike. I thought that apache 2.2 could handle large files now? Does apache really give a forbidden error when a file is too large?
Posted by dragon2611, 01-12-2008, 05:30 PM
you sure its not just the ownership or permissions on the file are set wrong
Posted by vickydepp, 01-13-2008, 03:43 AM
I use Apache/1.3.39. I changed ownership and permissions, and everything looks ok. Could someone answer my sfpt guestion please?
Posted by ub3r, 01-13-2008, 03:59 AM
Ah yes, you are right on that. I just haven't felt like moving on from apache 1.3. moving on cpanel: ssh oldserver.com -l root cd /home/someuser/ sftp root@newserver.com put cpmove-someuser.tar.gz ssh newserver.com -l root mv cpmove-someuser.tar.gz /home /scripts/restorepkg someuser if it's not cpanel then you're going to have to hack around with those directions to come up wtih a solution for yourself. fly away beautiful butterfly~
Posted by vickydepp, 01-13-2008, 07:28 AM
It workd, thank you so much. Just one more guestion, what if my SSH disconnects during the moving process?
Posted by ub3r, 01-13-2008, 08:22 AM
it might continue without you, it really depends on what the system feels like doing.
Posted by vickydepp, 01-13-2008, 08:53 AM
Thanks ub3r for all your help
Posted by mkc, 01-13-2008, 09:20 AM
Depends how it is compiled. I believe it is not on by default and that most distributions leave it off. We ran into this with Centos 5.