I would zip everything, rsync it there and unzip it. The only caveat is that when you zip the database, you must make sure the server is not running.
On Monday, 17 June 2013 01:42:11 UTC-5, Mika Sjöman wrote: > > Hi > > I want to move my website from a VPS to Pythonanywhere. The problem is > that my webpage has some houndred megabytes of video material so packing it > just ends up in a python error "internal error: requested number of bytes > is more than a Python string can hold" > > Is there another way I can move from my Ubuntu/MySQL/Apache server to > Pythonanywhere? Like a commandline packing and then pushing it with git/hg > or something? Is there any pitfalls that I should be aware of? What are the > steps? Would this work? > > 1. use HG of two folders; init folder and static web2py folder. Pull to > local machine from VPS. > 2. make a db backup of databases > 3. getting the DB backups to pythonanywhere. Any ideas on how to do this? > 4. pushing the files to pythonanywhere? Not much a hacker, so any > proposals on how to do this? I just know how to first pull and then push to > the server I pulled from. > > Would this work? > > Cheers > -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
