Proper way to move huge files between servers?

[tibberous]

I am trying to move videos from one server to another. I used ini_set("memory_limit","100M") to let me use file_get_contents and file_put_contents, but there has to be a way to do it that doesn't load the entire video into memory.

[DarkWater]

Are the servers on the same box?  If so, just do exec('mv file1 file2'); or rename().  Otherwise, check out the FTP functions.

[trq]

Is this just a one off and do you have shell access? I don't see why you'd be wanting to use php for this.

 

Take a look at the scp command providing you have shell access.

[tibberous]

There physically different servers.

 

The videos are tied into a web app - there are hundreds of them and they are attached to database records that are getting moved over at the same time. The way I have it setup, the videos are moved off the old server into a temporary directory, and a record is inserted into a database. After I move over several accounts, I run the video encoder, which reencodes and indexes all the videos. If I tried to do it by hand it would take weeks... even the mostly automated way I came up with is taking a long time -- each video takes about 15 minutes just to reencode =/

[jonsjava]

I think you need to create a bash script that will scp the file from one server to the other, then outputs something, like "1", or something. Then, you would do an if script like this:

<?php
$scp = shell_exec("move_file $file_name");
if ($scp == 1){
//run the sql transfer script
}
else{
//error out here
}