Posted by Anze on 09/20/07 15:18

Hi all!

I hope someone can help me with this... :)

I am again moving a site to another server and I am again amazed how low the
script limitations are (upload file size), how cr***y the consoles are and
how unnerving the whole process is. It has taken me 3 hours just to move
the DB and I have just now noticed that the codepage is invalid - even
though I have specified it correctly in phpMyAdmin. Let's start again... :(

So the idea is - why not write two PHP scripts, one for the source and one
for the destination server? They have access to files and DB data we wish
to move, so we should just specify the connection details and they could
interoperate to move the data from source to destination.

I hear you say: "what about time limit, memory limit,...?" The work could be
split into tiny pieces - the destination script could be called
continuously until the work is done. Actually, you could point a browser to
the destination script and it would request another tiny piece from source
and use it. Then it would display HTML with JavaScript redirect to itself
(unless the work was done of course). You just have to wait, but who
cares - it would take a lot less of my bandwidth and would probably be
faster too.

Now the question is: is there something like this out there? :)
I have searched through google but couldn't find anything.

Thanks,

Anze

• Next in forum: help with db_host
• Prev in forum: SELECT chunks
• Thread view: import / export between servers

[Reply to this message]