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I'll need to move the site, with emails and subdomains to frog host over the weekend. Can I,

ssh to froghost.
rsync website@oldhost.com/home/sitename/ ./ -avi

or will this break everything?

I think in another time and place I was told something like this would work if I ftp the website to some computer, the ftp again from some computer to froghost.

I also don't see the restore full site option in cpanel at frog host. Maybe that has been taken out of cpanel?

[netdiskounts]

In case you read this and have a similar problem, here is what did not work:

ssh username@server.froghost.com
rsync -avi user@oldhost.com:/home/account/ ./
*** This moved many files but timed out in about
*** 20 seconds with disconnect errors
cd local/backup/of/oldhost.com
rsync -avi ./  username@server.froghost.com:/home/account/
*** This moved some files but timed out in about
*** 20 seconds with disconnect errors

So there were timeout and disconnects with rsync operations. And the problem that the old account was full made it not possible to backup the whole account to a giant tar file then down load.

What worked:

1) Login to cpanel at oldhost.com.
2) Choose backup.
3) Choose create backup of entire site.
4) Use FTP Destination.
5) Enter server.froghost.com as the location with account username and password.
6) Run backup. (This created the tar gzip file in the top of the user account at froghost.com)
7) Waited about 3 hours for complete message.
8) Contact froghost support and ask to restore the account.

When using the SSL mail server there were two small glitches.
1) The certificate had to be reconfirmed for each account.
2) The IMAP folders had to be re-subscribed by each client.

If using the standard mail server, with clear text password, there was a re-download, but the folders were already subscribed.

Froghost admin was helpful, replying by email.