Monday 3 December 2012

manually backup, migrate, restore a cpanel user account


'''Method one:'''

Run on source server:

 /scripts/pkgacct $user
 mv /home/cpmove-$user.tar.gz /home/$user/public_html
 chmod 644 /home/$user/public_html/cpmove-$user.tar.gz

Run on destination server:

 cd /home
 wget http://$userdomain/cpmove-$user.tar.gz
 /scripts/restorepkg $user

'''Method two:'''

Run on source server:

 /scripts/pkgacct $user
 scp -P SSH_port /home/cpmove-$user.tar.gz root@destinationIP:/home
 enter root password

Run on destination server:

 /scripts/restorepkg $user

Thats it