Is that possible to get backup from VPS by Shell access?

Question

My VPS is going to die and i want to move to temporary hosting, but my Control panel is KLOXO which means it's such a pain to compress files because it will crash during Zipping large files.

I just have access to kloxo and also SSH from terminal, and i was wondering if you guys know a way to zip files in root and download it as well.

Thanks

Answer 1

I wonder if this might help. Compress your file using zip/tar utilities and then You can use scp to transfer those files on to your local machine. In case you prefer GUI tools you can also use WinSCP (a Windows GUI based client) to transfer your files.

scp [email protected]:backup.zip /some/local/directory

To zip directory called pics in your home directory (/home/you/pics), type the following command:

zip -r backup.zip /home/you/pics/

Using tar:

tar -zcvf archive-name.tar.gz directory-name

Explanation:

-z: Compress archive using gzip program
-c: Create archive
-v: Verbose i.e display progress while creating archive
-f: Archive File name