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Restore accounts from another harddisk on a cpanel server

STEPS

1)After reinstalling cpanel, first confiigure WHM.

2)Mount old drives (use df -h command to check if the old drive is mounted). Use 'mount' command to mount the drive Eg: mount /dev/hdb3 /mnt/old

3)Rsync the files:

Do these commands one by one,

rsync -vrplogDtH /mnt/old/usr/local/apache/conf /usr/local/apache
rsync -vrplogDtH /mnt/old/var/named /var
rsync -vrplogDtH /mnt/old/home/* /home
rsync -vrplogDtH /mnt/old/usr/local/cpanel /usr/local
rsync -vrplogDtH /mnt/old/var/lib/mysql /var/lib
rsync -vrplogDtH /mnt/old/var/cpanel /var
rsync -vrplogDtH /mnt/old/usr/share/ssl /usr/share
rsync -vrplogDtH /mnt/old/var/ssl /var
rsync -vrplogDtH /mnt/old/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailman /usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty
rsync -vrplogDtH /mnt/old/var/log/bandwidth /var/log
rsync -vrplogDtH /mnt/old/usr/local/frontpage /usr/local
rsync -vrplogDtH /mnt/old/var/spool/cron /var/spool

4)Next Step - Get some important files from etc:

cd /mnt/old/etc
rsync -vrplogDtH secondarymx domainalias valiases vfilters exim* proftpd* pure-ftpd* passwd* group* *domain* *named* wwwacct.conf cpupdate.conf quota.conf shadow* *rndc* ips* ipaddrpool* ssl /etc

Now, change the password for root

5)Updating software and restarting services
quote:
/scripts/upcp
/scripts/updatenow
/scripts/sysup
/scripts/fixeverything
/scripts/exim4
/scripts/easyapache
/scripts/securetmp

This is needed to update cpanel information. Please note, sshd might fail and not start after running fixeverything. You have to login to whm, and go to the rpm installer and "FORCE" install opensshd-server, opensshd, opensshd-client and then restart sshd from whm.

6)Restart the services:

/scripts/restartsrv httpd
/scripts/restartsrv cpanel
/scripts/restartsrv mysql
/scripts/restartsrv named
/scripts/restartsrv exim


After you are pleased that everything is working fine, restart the entire server.

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