Single cPanel Account Backup via SSH

Friday, 16 December 2005

If you need to backup a single cPanel account, and don't want to do it through the web interface of cPanel you can do it through SSH. There is a script in the /scripts directory on cPanel webservers called "pkgacct" 1. Login to your server as root via SSH. 2. Type: cd /scripts 3. Type: ./pkgacct username (replace username with the acount username you wish to backup) 4. You will not see something along the lines of this: Copying Reseller Config...Done Copying Mail files....Done Copying proftpd file....Done Copying www logs...Done Grabbing mysql dbs...Done Grabbing mysql privs...Done Copying mailman lists....Done Copying mailman archives....Done Copying homedir....Done 5. There will be a file now in /home called cpmove-username.tar.gz where username is the username specified in step #4. 6. Download the cpmove-username.tar.gz and save it. (You can use your FTP software to login to the server and download the file) Ho To restore a cpmove-username.tar.gz 1. Upload cpmove-username.tar.gz to the webserver's /home directory. (You can use your FTP software to login to the server and upload the file) 2. Type: /scripts/restorepkg username (replace username with the account username) This will restore the site, and also create the cPanel account.

 

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