Backing up and restoring accounts to a new server

Dan

Dan

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Hello,

This tutorial uses SSH on both the new and the old server and backs up and then restores using CPanel scripts. It also assumes you have enough disk space on your old server to hold the backups. If not you can use the WHM backup utility and try to FTP the backup to your new server.

1) Log into your old server via SSH

2) cd /home

3) /pkgacct USERNAME
Replace USERNAME with the account's user name of course.
This will create a tar.gz file in your /home directory.

4) mv cpmove-USERNAME.tar.gz /home/USERNAME/public_html
Move the file to where you can get it.

5) chown USERNAME:USERNAME
Own the file to the user so it can be accessed.

6) Log into your new server using SSH.

7) cd /home

8) wget http://www.DOMAIN.COM/cpmove-USERNAME.tar.gz
Replacing DOMAIN.COM with the domain name being moved of course.

9) /scripts/restorepkg USERNAME
This should restore all files, databases, and create a new DNS zone for the domain.

10) Log into WHM and verify settings. You will most likely need to recreate the package.

11) rm -f cpmove-USERNAME.tar.gz

12) switch back to the old server and rm -f cpmove-USERNAME.tar.gz

And you should be good to go! Rinse and repeat for each account being moved :)
 
Dan said:
Hello,

This tutorial uses SSH on both the new and the old server and backs up and then restores using CPanel scripts. It also assumes you have enough disk space on your old server to hold the backups. If not you can use the WHM backup utility and try to FTP the backup to your new server.

1) Log into your old server via SSH

2) cd /home

3) /pkgacct USERNAME
Replace USERNAME with the account's user name of course.
This will create a tar.gz file in your /home directory.

4) mv cpmove-USERNAME.tar.gz /home/USERNAME/public_html
Move the file to where you can get it.

5) chown USERNAME:USERNAME
Own the file to the user so it can be accessed.

6) Log into your new server using SSH.

7) cd /home

8) wget http://www.DOMAIN.COM/cpmove-USERNAME.tar.gz
Replacing DOMAIN.COM with the domain name being moved of course.

9) /scripts/restorepkg USERNAME
This should restore all files, databases, and create a new DNS zone for the domain.

10) Log into WHM and verify settings. You will most likely need to recreate the package.

11) rm -f cpmove-USERNAME.tar.gz

12) switch back to the old server and rm -f cpmove-USERNAME.tar.gz

And you should be good to go! Rinse and repeat for each account being moved :)
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On old server, i haven't SSH permission to access my account and total files locate on it is: 4GB

Are there any ways to compress all of them to zip file and wget to new server (on knownhost.com)

Please help me!

Thank you!
 
Hello Bigu_c,

Sure there is, as stated in the first paragraph you can try using WHM's backup utility and FTPing it directly to the new server. You can also try using CPanel's backup utility (assuming you have the disk space on your old server) and then moving the file to where you can access it and then use wget to copy it to the new server.

These are rather involved options though and you may want to take advantage of Knownhost's offer to move your accounts over for you.

Hope that helps
 
thanks for the tutorial - i did not need ssh access for the old server, i have done from cpanel backup features. :D
 
I have very basic knowledge of cpanel.

Now I had created backup yesterday and tried to install a MOD but it went wrong and hence I want to restore the backup.

Backup is located on the the server itself.

How do I restore the backup? Please help.
 
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