Putty to transfer files from one server to another

[beachbum]

Just wondering if someone could help me out with this one..

I want to transfer files from one server hosted with another company to my server hosted with serverbeach. I know that you can connect to 2 different servers and transfer files but I am not sure how it is done.

Could someone help me out with the putty commands??

I need to make sure the file structure is kept and file permissions are also kept.

Thanks

[QT]

This should give you quite a bit of info regarding PuTTY.

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~s...putty/faq.html

[tsuehpsyde]

If by PuTTy commands you mean SSH commands, then scp and sftp are probably the commands you want to use. I prefer scp myself.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_copy

[beachbum]

Thanks for the info... When I transferred the files originally to our new hosted server I downloaded them to my desktop from the old host then uploaded them to the serverbeach server. We use a program and the folder permissions got changed, way to many folders to reset permissions to.

[tsuehpsyde]

Thanks for the info... When I transferred the files originally to our new hosted server I downloaded them to my desktop from the old host then uploaded them to the serverbeach server. We use a program and the folder permissions got changed, way to many folders to reset permissions to.

Using tar is generally the best way to save permissions when backing stuff up. Just use -p to preserve premissions.

[beachbum]

I think I have read just about everything and I am still lost. I down loaded this program called secpanel but I don't even know how to install it.

[QT]

Hmm... GUI for managing and running ssh and related utilities.

http://www.freshports.org/security/secpanel/

[chavez]

I installed secpanel, but I'm not sure it is particulary useful in this situation.

Here's a scenario you might use to copy files from one remote server to the other.

• Use PuTTY to log into the first server.
• Switch to root and use tar to archive the files/filesystem into one file, ie. /var/www/html/data to data.tar .
  

  :~$ su - 
  Enter root password when prompted.
  :~$ cd /var/www/html/
  :~$ tar -cvvf data.tar data

• Use SCP to copy the archive to the second server.
  

  :~$ scp data.tar user2@server2.com: (don't forget the trailing ":")
  Enter user2's password when prompted.
  This will copy the archive to user2's home directory

• Use PuTTY, or ssh directly from server1, to log into server2 and untar the archive in /var/www/html/
  

  :~$ ssh user2@server2.com
  Enter user2's password when prompted.
  :~$ su - 
  Enter root password when prompted.
  :~$ cd /var/www/html/
  :~$ mv /home/user2/data.tar . (don't forget that ".")
  :~$ tar -pxvf data.tar

• Done!

I hope this helps. If your getting stuck at a certain step, let us know.

[beachbum]

I am trying your suggestion now!!!

I was able to install the rpm package of secpanel but when I run the command
"whereis wish" and copy the location to line one of the secpanel file it just returns an error

This is the location that I get for the wish location
wish: /usr/bin/wish /usr/bin/wish8.4 /usr/share/man/man1/wish.1.gz

This is what line 1 of the secpanel file reads

#!/bin/sh
# -*- tcl -*-
# Executing wish #\
exec wish "/usr/bin/wish"


the error that I get is

Application initialization failed: no display name and no $DISPLAY environment variable
Error in startup script: invalid command name ELF4Ü4"
while executing
ELF4Ü4 (4àà..."

[a_guy]

I am hung up on this step

tar -cvvf data.tar data

what I entered and got

[admin@dedicated html]$ tar -cvvf sugarcrm2.tar sugarcrm2
tar: sugarcrm2.tar: Cannot open: Permission denied
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

You may not have permissions to access the file unless you are running as root. What does ls -al sugarcrm* come back with permissions-wise?

[beachbum]

yea.. thought I was logged in as root.. guess not

on to step 2..

[a_guy]

yea.. thought I was logged in as root.. guess not

on to step 2..

Usually you'd never log-on via any method as a root user, you'll only switch to perform a very specific task and then drop back down to user-mode permissions. I don't know if they enforce that as a rule here, but take it from me, Linux, and most Unices will not tell root no for any reason. I've taken more on the chin logging in as root and user that as a user account than I care to think about, so I hope that it is a policy that's enforced.

[beachbum]

step 2... can't get past the password.. I have tried 3 account names


scp data.tar chris@mywebsite.com::

chris is an account that I had setup.. now I can ftp a file using that account


worked with the primary userid and the server IP address but not the @mywebsite.com:

[a_guy]

step 2... can't get past the password.. I have tried 3 account names


scp data.tar chris@solidvision.com:

chris is an account that I had setup.. now I can ftp a file using that account

If you can use FTP to move the file, it SHOULDN'T hurt anything to use that method, it's simply not an encrypted transmission like scp (secure copy) is. If you feel comfortable with your data being exposed to the world (potentially), then FTP is a great way to move the data, otherwise, I'd log in with a shell to "server2", make sure my password is right with the "passwd" command, and retry the transfer

[beachbum]

got it to work but this happened

data.tar 50% 152MB 0.0KB/s - stalled -

so what happened??