If you’ve ever tried to download a file larger than 2GB you quickly learned that on the vast majority of Linux servers, you can’t. This has to do with a limitation imposed by having a 32-bit files system interface which you likely have. Even if you have a 64-bit processor. So for all intensive purposes: If you have a site that is larger than 2GB tarred/zipped/whatevered you can’t move it in on big chunk. This article will explain how you can, and then some. Skip the steps you already know as I’m going to try to make this easy enough to explain for someone who has never used any of these commands before.
In order for this article to make sense to you, you really ought to have some experience with SSH and in order to actually do this, you’re going to need shell access to both the server you’re moving your site from and the server you’re moving your site to.
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