[BNM] Transferring 60GB of files from one server to another

[James Moss]

Hi guys,

Im working on a side project and we've just had a fast shiny new linux
server installed for us to replace the old one.  However we've got 60GB of
files in the wwwroot folder which need to be transferred to the new server
over the gigabit network.  Whats the fastest way of doing it? Is SSHing in
and doing an FTP transfer fast enough or is there a better way?

Weve also got a fairly large DB (its just under 5GB, 3.5GB of which is a
single table).  Whats the best way of getting that across too?  I was
planning on dumping the current one to an .sql file and executing it on the
new server but i presume the inserts will take aaaaages.

Cheers,
James.