Vincent Collins’ Weblog

In my last post, I talked about the troubles I’ve been having with FTP.  Several have suggested zipping the site before moving it over.  I’m in the process of doing that now.  I just wanted to mention that WinZip failed on such a large site, it sat there for well over 30 minutes chugging away and then it just said that it failed due to such the large size.

WinRar to the rescue!!! I downloaded WinRar and it archived it with no trouble.  I can’t figure out why winzip couldn’t handle it and maybe there is a way to set it up so that it does but I just expect things like this to work right out of the box.  WinRar did.

It comes with a unlimited 40 day free trial and then it’s only $29 US for a single user/computer license. The way the license reads is a bit confusing but I think for my use, the single user/computer license works.

I’m a bit frustrated with FTP. I have always had a difficult time migrating large amounts of files from one server to another using FTP. As an example, I have a website which has over 60,000 files totaling 6.8 GBs and I’m trying to migrate it to a new server. Both are windows server 2003 with a nice fat connection to the Internet. Every time I’ve tried to ftp it over it breaks at various points. I’ve tried CuteFTP 8 Professional as well as FileZilla.

At this point I’m looking for something I can just set and forget. Something reliable and something that if the connect breaks, it will reconnect and continue remembering where it last left off. I would also like something I can have email me when complete if there is such a program. I’m willing to pay for this product but again, I want it to be reliable. I’m still searching for tools but in the meantime, if anyone knows of such a product and most importantly has experience with using the tool on large sites with no problems, please let me know.