WHM/cPanel is best hosting control panel i used ever. It provides an easy way to manage your server. cPanel provides scripts for most of tasks which can be done using web interface.
This article will help you to how to take manual backup of cPanel/WHM user account and restore on other cPanel/WHM server using command line.
1. Backup Account using Commnad Line
cPanel provides a command line script to take backup of entire user and there data in an compressed file. For example we need to take backup of cpanel account “myuser”, use following command as root login.
# /scripts/pkgacct myuser
above command will take few time to complete and create a backup file under /home directory with name /home/cpmove-myuser.tar.gz
2. Restore Account from Backup File
After transfer above archive to remote server, copy it under /home directory and execute following command to restore user.
# /scripts/restorepkg myuser
This command will restore full account with all settings, files and databases. After using these option to migrate any user from one cPanel server to another cPanel server, You will find that how easy a account migration is.
5 Comments
what is the command to back up a hosting account from command line that is not for “Move”??
Hi Alex,
You can use the same command for backup as well.
/scripts/pkgacct username
how to restore database and file from backup in cpanel from command line.
My website delhiwebsitedesigning.in is showing error message when i upload or do not upload the site files.
Hi,
What error are you facing ?