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Lycanth Posted April 20, 2016 Posted April 20, 2016 I have been trying for several months now to migrate my site successfully to a new host. I've followed all the guides and everything usually looks like it's gone correctly...until I start to dig deeper. A site that is meant to have 100K+ posts on it is only showing about 10K of them, meaning a lot of info is getting lost on the way over and I'm unsure how to fix it. I obviously don't want to lose everything so could someone point me in the right direction or can someone help me? I'm running 3.4.6 and wish to stay on it. I don't want to upgrade to 4.
AndyF Posted April 20, 2016 Posted April 20, 2016 Most hosts (if you are moving to them) would import a database for you if its large or you do not have shell access to do it yourself. Have you asked your 'new' host if they are willing to do this for you ? You could then just export it and upload it somewhere in the filesystem temporarily (ideally above public_html) for them to import. If both hosts have Cpanel then it can be a bit easier as its possible in some cases to do a direct 'transfer'
ASTRAPI Posted April 20, 2016 Posted April 20, 2016 It seems that you try to import your database from a Gui environment (cpanel? phpmyadmin?) and timeout is hitting you .... Try to use ssh for dumb and import and if you can't do it just ask your host and they will help you
ipbfuck Posted April 20, 2016 Posted April 20, 2016 bigdump, if u don't have ssh, can help you http://www.ozerov.de/bigdump/
Lycanth Posted June 17, 2016 Author Posted June 17, 2016 thank you all, have been trying to make sense of it all and trying bigdump. The problem is actually DLing the database in the first place. I've used bigdump before and it sends all the into to new server, but when it gets there it's not actually the entire database, so it's the grabbing it in the beginning that isn't working.
ASTRAPI Posted June 17, 2016 Posted June 17, 2016 The best way is to use ssh and dumb the database and then use ssh again on the new server to import it.... But we must know more info about your system so we can help you.... Do you have ssh access in any way or not?On most of the cases you can get ssh access ! If the database is not big you can dump it using Phpmyadmin for example and import it using ssh on the new server. If there is no ssh on old and new server you should look for hosting that offers that as it is very important
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