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I would say duplicate the file structure somewhere on your Mac and then copy to it. I just went through this duping from one remote server to another. Here's an example of the syntax to copy the contents of the home/ (or any) directory from one server to another:

(the second home is the directory on your Mac... can be named anything you want actually)

rsync -avz -e ssh root@remote.ser.ver.ip:/home/ /home/ --exclude "directoryIdontwantcopied/" --exclude "anotherone/" --exclude "somefileIdontwant copied.*"

etc... you get the idea. you definitely DO NOT want to copy the MySQL-install directory. If you go to overwrite it from backup you will FUBAR your MySQL install. I probably wouldn't copy the OS either unless your provider will NOT do an OS reinstall. I found no problems copying dbs using method as well.

rsync -avz -e ssh root@remote.ser.ver.ip:/var/lib/mysql/ /var/lib/mysql/ --include "db_1" --include "db_2" --include "db_3" --exclude "*"

This second run only copies dbs I specify and excludes everything else (*)wildcard.

I hope this helps.

Last edited by StrawHand (2008-06-20 11:01 am)