tar & untar a complete website

[SM777]

I'm moving my site to a new server. How do I completely tar the old website into 1 file and then untar on the new server?

What I'd like to do is to tar all files in the

/home/acme directory including all subfolders, .htaccess files etc.

and then download the tar, upload to the new server then untar.

Is it possible to preserve all the file and directory access rights (755 etc.) too?

 

[DumTech]

When I did this with my own site, I think that what you're looking for is what tar did by default. In my

http://www directory,

I used tar cvzf web.tgz * to create the archive, and in my new

http://www directory,

I used tar xvzf web.tgz to put everything back as it was.

man tar is never a bad idea!

 

[DumTech]

When I did this with my own site, I think the default tar behavior did what you're looking for. In my

http://www directory,

I used tar cvzf web.tgz * to create the archive, and in my new

http://www directory,

I used tar xvzf web.tgz and everything was back as it had been.

man tar is never a bad idea!

 

[SM777]

That worked fine. I had to gzip it then before I downloaded.

Do you know of a way to to the same thing but make a compressed image of the complete website?