You know, most of those migration tools are complete pieces of crap lol... just use tar and build a solid archive by hand; at least then you know for certain what is backed up...

1&$ have there own control panel,
so a import / export of a site via migrate i doubt is possible.

But as Gizmo says about tar it all up
And you can backup the Databases too.
You may have see there help files to find where that
1 little option is but it can be done.

I can do a dump of the mysql, i did that of my beta forum http://www.adventistcafe.com and trying to bring it over as a sample move to godaddy. I have created http://www.adventistblog.com to test it.


HOWever I am not sure how to import the database... vie mysqlphp or what ever that is called...

Really appreciate the help...

Ian both 1and1 and godaddy have proprietary control panels

I am not a programmer... and have trouble even spelling that word...

HOWEVER
It is not clear to me, in the ubb Control panel, where we can back up the database.. why I could not do that, copy it over to new server and then import each of those files..

OR is that possible? One would think if you can back up you can restore?

RIght????

The UBB does have a backup system, however I wouldn't use it...

If you have access to SSH (which any decent host would allow) You can do the following:
MySQL Export: mysqldump -uusername -ppassword database_name > file_to_write.sql
MySQL Import: mysql -h localhost -uusername -ppassword database_name < file_to_insert.sql

Or if you go into your 1&1 control pannel
navigate to database managment or phpmyadmin, i think there is a back up
on that page somewhere.

Its over 8 months ago now,
i tryied back then to do what gizmo sugests above,
but it would time out and no dump.

At the time my DB was v7.0.0 and it was 135mb
so i was over quota by 35mb and this could have
been part of the problem and there constrictions
to perfom normal operations.

You will get there.

am pretty sure I can dump it, i just don't know how to import it to a new install...

OK I read this wrong before... may try that...

I would highly advise against using a php script (PHPMyAdmin, the UBB, etc) to create an SQL dump; especially with a large (over 100mb) database (as it will time out or in extreme cases not give you a complete database dump).

Instead, by using SSH (commands provided above) one can create the dump from the MySQL service directly (and it will be created MUCH faster).

If you are not used to SSH - then download a copy of putty and run that assuming you have command line access to your hosting (not all allow this for security reasons)