Site Transfer Wizard is a unique feature of Akeeba Backup.
With it you can copy an entire
web site from one server to another
without having to download anything to
your own computer.
This is particularly useful
if you have a limited internet connection
or the site is particularly large.
To begin with
click on the Site Transfer Wizard.
Site Transfer Wizard requires you to have
a recent backup of your site.
You can see I have one here already
but if you don't then a link will be displayed
for you to create one.
You are also prompted with the minimum
disk space required on your NEW server
to transfer the site.
Next enter the URL
to the new site and click on Check.
You now need to chose one of the available
transfer methods.
I am going to choose FTP.
First I enter the ftp hostname
of my new server.
and then the FTP username and password
And then the actual directory
on the remote site that I am going
to install this web site in.
Now the path can be quite difficult
to get exactly correct
so the easiest thing to do
is to open your FTP program
and copy it from there.
I am using filezilla
but you could use any FTP program.
When I have connected with my FTP
I can navigate to the site root,
in this case public_html
and take a copy of the actual full path.
I can then return to my web site
and paste it in to ensure
it is exactly correct.
When all that's been entered
we can Proceed with the Installation.
Akeeba Backup is now uploading
a copy of the kickstart program
and transferring the backup file
to your new site.
Depending on the size of your site
this may take some time
and you must keep this page open
until it has completed.
Once completed
click to Run Kickstart
and a new browser window will open
to the Kickstart program running
on your NEW site.
We can now complete the restoration
process on the new server
as shown in the previous video.