Everybody knows, how to restore the cpanel backup using scripts command but most of us doesn’t know how to restore the cpanel backup with new username. In older version its not possible but In new version (WHM 11.44.1 (build 11)) its possible. Follow the below steps to do it.
For testing purpose, i’m playing this testing with cloudana account.
- Take backup of corresponding account
- Terminate the account
- Restore the account with new username
Syntax :
Use the below syntax to restore the cpanel backup with new username. Instead of newusername you need to give your newusername whatever you want.
# /scripts/restorepkg --newuser newusername /path/to/backup/file
1) See blow list of hosted account in our server and I planning to test cloudana account.
[email protected] [/home]# ls -lh total 40.0K drwx--x--x 8 root root 4.0K Jun 13 13:09 backup/ drwx--x--x 14 cloudana cloudana 4.0K Aug 5 10:02 cloudana/ drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4.0K Oct 20 2012 .cpan/ drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4.0K Aug 6 01:20 .cpanm/ drwx------ 4 root root 4.0K Aug 6 01:20 .cpcpan/ drwx------ 3 root root 4.0K Oct 20 2012 cpeasyapache/ drwx------ 2 root root 4.0K Jan 30 2014 cprestore/ drwx--x--x 12 dev2daygeek dev2daygeek 4.0K Aug 2 01:03 dev2daygeek/ drwx--x--x 17 email3se email3se 4.0K Aug 2 01:03 email3se/ drwx------ 2 nagios nagios 4.0K Jan 4 2013 nagios/ drwx--x--x 11 openmeeting2dayg openmeeting2dayg 4.0K Aug 2 01:32 openmeeting2dayg/ drwx--x--x 11 support2daygeek support2daygeek 4.0K Aug 2 01:32 support2daygeek/ drwx--x--x 3 root root 4.0K Nov 5 2013 virtfs/
2) Taking backup of cloudana account using scripts command.
[email protected] [/home]# /scripts/pkgacct cloudana pkgacct started. pkgacct using '/usr/bin/gzip -6' to compress archives pkgacct working dir : /home/cpmove-cloudana . . Done pkgacctfile is: /home/cpmove-cloudana.tar.gz md5sum is: dad9f6b9848c85cc64f8f4b28a210850 size is: 1049699438 homesize is: 1509277696
3) Verifying the backup file. Yes, its there.
[email protected] [/home]# ls -lh total 926M drwx--x--x 8 root root 4.0K Jun 13 13:09 backup/ -rw------- 1 root root 926M Jul 4 13:45 backup-7.4.2014_13-44-24_cloudana.tar.gz drwx--x--x 14 cloudana cloudana 4.0K Aug 5 10:02 cloudana/ drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4.0K Oct 20 2012 .cpan/ drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4.0K Aug 6 01:20 .cpanm/ drwx------ 4 root root 4.0K Aug 6 01:20 .cpcpan/ drwx------ 3 root root 4.0K Oct 20 2012 cpeasyapache/ drwx------ 2 root root 4.0K Jan 30 2014 cprestore/ drwx--x--x 12 dev2daygeek dev2daygeek 4.0K Aug 2 01:03 dev2daygeek/ drwx--x--x 17 email3se email3se 4.0K Aug 2 01:03 email3se/ drwx------ 2 nagios nagios 4.0K Jan 4 2013 nagios/ drwx--x--x 11 openmeeting2dayg openmeeting2dayg 4.0K Aug 2 01:32 openmeeting2dayg/ drwx--x--x 11 support2daygeek support2daygeek 4.0K Aug 2 01:32 support2daygeek/ drwx--x--x 3 root root 4.0K Nov 5 2013 virtfs/
4) Terminating cloudana account from cpanel
[email protected] [/home]# /scripts/killacct cloudana Are you sure you want to remove the account "cloudana" [y/N]? y Running pre removal script (/usr/local/cpanel/scripts/prekillacct)......Done . . Updating internal databases......Done Running post removal scripts (/usr/local/cpanel/scripts/legacypostkillacct, /usr/local/cpanel/scripts/postkillacct)......Done Account Removal Complete!!!......Done info [killacct] User cloudana removed User: cloudana Domain: cloud.2daygeek.com Locking password for user cloudana. passwd: Success Removed the following non-SSL virtual hosts: cloud.2daygeek.com Removed the following SSL virtual hosts: Removed DB cloudana_cloud Database "cloudana_cloud" dropped SuccessRemoving /etc/valiases/cloud.2daygeek.com System has 2 free ips. Id: TQ:TaskQueue:774 Updating FTP passwords for cloudana Purging ftp user cloudana FTP password files updated. FTP vhost passwords synced cloudana account removed
5) Restoring the same domain with different/new username.
[email protected] [/home]# /scripts/restorepkg --newuser cloud2g /home/backup-7.4.2014_13-44-24_cloudana.tar.gz Attempting restoration of the account backup “/home/backup-7.4.2014_13-44-24_cloudana.tar.gz” (type: backup) … The account backup to restore is a file: /home/backup-7.4.2014_13-44-24_cloudana.tar.gz cPanel restorepkg Archive user: “cloudana” New user: “cloud2g” Restricted: “no” Allow Reseller Privileges: “no” The system will attempt to restore the archive file “/home/backup-7.4.2014_13-44-24_cloudana.tar.gz”. ArchiveManager Preparing archive for restoration … . . . Quota Restoring quota Using Universal Quota Support (quota=0) Quota Account Restored
6) Verifying the restored account username details in home directory. Yes, its restored with new username and also created soft link
[email protected] [/home]# ls -lh total 926M drwx--x--x 8 root root 4.0K Jun 13 13:09 backup/ -rw------- 1 root root 926M Jul 4 13:45 backup-7.4.2014_13-44-24_cloudana.tar.gz drwx--x--x 14 cloud2g cloud2g 4.0K Aug 8 10:34 cloud2g/ lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Aug 8 10:31 cloudana -> /home/cloud2g/ drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4.0K Oct 20 2012 .cpan/ drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4.0K Aug 6 01:20 .cpanm/ drwx------ 4 root root 4.0K Aug 6 01:20 .cpcpan/ drwx------ 3 root root 4.0K Oct 20 2012 cpeasyapache/ drwx------ 2 root root 4.0K Jan 30 2014 cprestore/ drwx--x--x 12 dev2daygeek dev2daygeek 4.0K Aug 2 01:03 dev2daygeek/ drwx--x--x 17 email3se email3se 4.0K Aug 2 01:03 email3se/ drwx------ 2 nagios nagios 4.0K Jan 4 2013 nagios/ drwx--x--x 11 openmeeting2dayg openmeeting2dayg 4.0K Aug 2 01:32 openmeeting2dayg/ drwx--x--x 11 support2daygeek support2daygeek 4.0K Aug 2 01:32 support2daygeek/ drwx--x--x 3 root root 4.0K Nov 5 2013 virtfs/
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