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My current files and directories are hosted with Godaddy.com and they don't allow scp over to another host, and I want to get all the pictures for wordpress under wp-content/uploads/* but when I tried sftp -r

#sftp> get -r uploads /www/wp-content/uploads
Invalid flag -r

I want to move from Godaddy to Site5 without scp what else I can use?

Godaddy I'm using shared hosting the 4GH, so not many option left for me

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Depending on what godaddy / Site5 allow you to do:

  • RSYNC: rsync [OPTIONS]... SRC [SRC]... [USER@]HOST:DEST
  • SFTP: This time archive your files first and then just SFTP the archive
    • tar czvf archive.tar.gz /wp/files-to-archive/*
    • #sftp > get archive.tar.gz
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  • Godaddy doesn't support RSYNC and I can't archrive the very large file
    – Ali
    Apr 9, 2013 at 10:55
  • How about using something like this plugin to backup your WP and have it email the zip to you. Slight over kill but the uploaded photos should be in there. [link]wordpress.org/extend/plugins/backupwordpress
    – Steve N
    Apr 9, 2013 at 11:03
  • actually I learned that your way really helped! first I was using .zip and that one really bad, so I used .tar.gz and it works like charm! now I have done all the backup
    – Ali
    Apr 9, 2013 at 14:31
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If you're doing this from a unix-like system, and if Godaddy supplies tar, then you can use that to pipe the files through an ssh connection. Basically, from your system you would run:

ssh remotehost 'cd /destination && tar cf - files' | tar xvf -

This avoids having to save the tarfile on the remote host. For more details, see this question.

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  • I don't get it. It's done now, but your answer is that suppose to use it just to save it or to transfer it too? because what I was looking for is to tar the file then transfer from Godaddy to anotehr host
    – Ali
    May 3, 2013 at 14:37
  • My example shows how to copy a directory tree to your local system without creating an intermediate tarfile. That is what you were trying to do in your original question.
    – Kenster
    May 3, 2013 at 14:50

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