Migrating from old server to new server?

I'm currently with another hosting company that is also a VDS. When I sign up, is there any way I can migrate my data from the old host to the new host easily and quicker than doing it a file at a time by hand via regular FTP?

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rsync over ssh - best of both worlds!

This will copy the files to the new server, right? It won't delete them off the old server just yet will it?

@Anonymous:

This will copy the files to the new server, right? It won't delete them off the old server just yet will it?

Correct. None of the proposed methods will remove any files from your source server.

I'd recommend rsync only because it's easier to make sure that the files are copied exactly (file permissions and ownerships included).

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