by Mohsin Sumar | May 7, 2023 | Server Management, SSH
Recently, I had to move an app from one server to a new one. My preferred method of migration is always using the cPanel’s Transfer Tool which works absolutely great all the time. However, this time around – this method didn’t work for me as the...
by Mohsin Sumar | Jan 9, 2021 | Server Management, SSH, Tips & Tricks
Earlier this week, I was presented with a challenge to copy over a website that wasn’t having a control panel like cPanel; and moving it over to cPanel web hosting service provided by Extreme Web Technologies. The traditional approach for such type of migration...
by Mohsin Sumar | Apr 17, 2017 | Server Management, SSH, Tips & Tricks
One of our customers had a unique challenge of moving web servers. Their site was huge, with one directory having over 200GB of images. They opted to do a partial migration, copying over the website as is first before the final switch over. The final switch over...
by Mohsin Sumar | Nov 24, 2009 | SSH, Tips & Tricks
Using the following command in SSH, you will be able to extract files from your tar file. tar -xf file.tar
by Mohsin Sumar | Nov 22, 2009 | SSH, Tips & Tricks
Use the following command if you want to create a tar and compress a file (or folder). tar -czf /path/to/save/file.tar folder_or_file_name The options used in the above command are outlined below for your understanding. -c = create -z = compress a file -f = use the...
by Mohsin Sumar | Nov 14, 2009 | SSH
If your SSH ls command output is really long, and cannot be viewed on screen – you can use the following command to part of it with a more command to continue down the list. ls [options here] | more Example:- ls -l | more
