Debian

MySQL

It is commonly easier to use this to dump and restore MySQL, instead of using mysqldump on the new server via .sql files:

mysqldump --default-character-set=binary --user=root --password=EnterPasswordHere databasename > dbdump.txt

mysql --silent --local --password=EnterPasswordHere DatabaseName < dbdump.txt

Transmission

The easiest way to get this working is by doing:

vim /etc/apt/sources.list

Add in this line:

deb http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian sid main

Do apt-get update , then do:

apt-cache show transmission-cli | grep Version
apt-cache show transmission-common | grep Version
apt-cache show transmission-daemon | grep Version

apt-get install transmission-cli transmission-common transmission-daemon

Then, to edit the files without it overwriting /etc/transmission-daemon/settings.json

Stop the service, edit the file, backup the file and then start the service.

/etc/init.d/transmission-daemon stop
vim /etc/transmission-daemon/settings.json
cp /etc/transmission-daemon/settings.json /root/settings.json.backup
/etc/init.d/transmission-daemon start

Check /etc/transmission-daemon/settings.json is the same file you edited and that it is owned by debian-transmission:debian-transmission