Transferring large database via ssh

[greenchicken]

Ok I have Plesk8

I have a Vbulletin forum

I have a large database I want to transfer via ssh

I am new to ssh very new

Say I upload a database to httpdocs on account example.com

and I wanted to move that database to my database list by ssh

what are the exact command lines to do this and is it possible?

TIA
Total newbie, wanting to learn

 

[freaky@]

Don't really get ur question....

From the machine the file is on

scp /path/to/file.tgz user@host.somedomain.com:/path/to/store

will ask for password of <user> then

man scp

 

[albans]

If you've got a mysql DB, I think that the easiest thing to do is to export/import it via PHPMyAdmin rather than moving the DB files from one server to the other...

Or the best way, not the easiest would be to use a mysql client like SQLyog, you connect to the old server and to your actual plesk web server (via VPN module of Plesk, OpenSSL). Then you select to "copy a database to a different Host/DB".

You might find this article usefull:
backup and restore a mysql database

 

[!Blob!]

The question is: what've you uploaded?

It can be *.sql, then just simply you enter directory with that file, and execute:
mysql -u username -p -D database < yourfile.sql

You can create user and database via PHPMyAdmin for example. Don't even think of uploading large db via PHPMyA - it won't work.

If you have a hardcopy of *.MYD, *.MYI, *.frm files just upload them to mysql's data directory (it depends on what system you have). For example to /var/lib/mysql/database/ and you're done (just remember to create a user for that database).