Hello, I am looking to backup my sites from one server to another using scp, because going through ftp with my internet connection takes 2-3 days for those sites to finish... I am concerned about the permissions, if they are set as root I won't be able to edit them through ftp. will resync websites resolve that problem? or what is the best way to do it? Also if you know of a gui tool to help me through the scp process for windows or debian, that would ease things a lot for me. Thanks!
I would use rsync over ssh instead of ftp or scp: rsync -avz -e ssh --delete /var/www/ [email protected]:/my/backup/directory/ The rsync command on your server has to be run as root. It will only sync new or changed files when you run it a second time, so the first backup will take quite long but the next backup will be fast. The --delete switch just means to delete files in the backup that have been deleted on your server, if you dont want that, remove --delete from the command. You can do the same for /var/vmail if you want to backup emails as well.
As long as you run this command as root, it will preserve all permissions. I use the same command for server migrations.
