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How to backup and restore a domain account via ssh

How to Backup and Restore a Domain Account via SSH

You can backup a domain via Cpanel. Sometimes these might be a need to backup a account without logging into the end users CPanel. In those situations the account can also be backed up via SSH by running the command /scripts/pkgacct. Every CPanel is installed with its scripts and the executable path for those scripts or commands is

# /scripts/cpanel-command

Steps to backup a Cpanel account via SSH

1. Log into your server by using SSH

 - Change to the root user
 # su 

2. Execute the CPanel script for the account backup.

/scripts/pkgacct username

replace the username with the actual username of the account which you need to take backup

The above command will print the output like

Copying domain 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

3. The backup file will be placed in the users home directory.

You can download it via ftp or copy using rsync or scp command.

How to restore a Domain Account via SSH

1. Log into your server by using SSH

 - Change to the root user
 # su 

2. Upload or copy the backup file (Example File Name: w3calculator.tar.gz) to the home directory of domain account.

3. Execute the Cpanel script to restore the account.

/scripts/restorepkg username

replace the username with the actual username of the account.
Note: Make sure that the file name matches the necessary naming convention.

This will restore the domain account from the backup, also it will create the CPanel account.

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