Could some kind person help me out?

[Phat Papa Pete]

I am in the process of transferring my forum to a new host but it's going reeeaaallly slow on my 56k modem. I was wondering if any kind person out there with a faster modem could help me out, please?

Here is what's happening: I've read the page here on how to transfer servers but I cannot Telnet into my current host. Instead, I am downloading an SQL dump which has been going for almost 3 hours now and I'm 50MB done.

My domain is still at my current host, and I can get my hands on the access information for my new host. All I need is someone (preferably someone who has done this before) with a fast modem to download a dump through the Admin CP and Telnet and restore it to my new host.

Any help is appreciated. :)

-Peter

[Jake Bunce]

maybe you could ask your current host to do the transfer from their end. how big is your database btw?

[Mark Hewitt]

Can't you telnet into your new host and do an ftp transfer from there?

[Jake Bunce]

Originally posted by Mark Hewitt
Can't you telnet into your new host and do an ftp transfer from there?

hey, there's an idea. that should work as long as your current host gives you ftp access.

-telnet into new server
-ftp
-open
-IP of current server
-username and pass
-get dbbackup.sql

...something like that

[Phat Papa Pete]

Well to be honest, I'm new to Telnet and don't know all these commands.

My SQL download last night failed - I got disconnected at 60MB and when I reconnected to try again, it started all over. And that took me 4 hours as well. *sniff*

Okay. So now I've used another method and dumped the SQL in my forum/admin folder. I've looked at it and it's 70MB big! Damn - I was only 10MB away. Okay, I'm currently downloading it through FTP but that will take around 5 hours.

If I gave someone my FTP access to download the dump, could you Telnet into my new site and restore it please? I've asked my current host and they will do in a couple of hours but I need my forum open as quickly as possible.

Another thing - how do I actually Telnet into my new site? My host said Telnet is available. I'm doing: Run>Telnet *site*, then I get "Could not open connection to *site*".

[Phat Papa Pete]

Okay, so I don't have Telnet access at the moment. But is there a way of restoring my database via FTP? I'm doing this by myself at the moment. Still looking for help though. :)

[eva2000]

Originally posted by Phat Papa Pete
Okay, so I don't have Telnet access at the moment. But is there a way of restoring my database via FTP? I'm doing this by myself at the moment. Still looking for help though. :) wrong forum moving to mysql forum

really this isn't anyway of restoring via ftp... only via telnet

[Phat Papa Pete]

Okay, Telnet on either server is impossible. But could you save each table seperately as .sql files via the AdminCP and upload them through phpMyAdmin?

[eva2000]

Originally posted by Phat Papa Pete
Okay, Telnet on either server is impossible. But could you save each table seperately as .sql files via the AdminCP and upload them through phpMyAdmin? depends on the size of each table really if it's large then no phpmyadmin will timeout and no give you a complete sql file

[Phat Papa Pete]

It's okay now guys, I've sorted this problem out myself. Thanks for the support Jakeman, Mark Hewitt and eva2000. :)