How to Backup and Restore cPanel Account form Backend

How to Backup and Restore cPanel Account form Backend.

Date : 05/06/2019

Introduction :

Taking Backup of any hosting account is very necessary & safe. Cpanel provides a scripts which will help to backup & restore becomes more easy. Command pkgacct is used for backup cpanel web hosting accounts and restorepkg is for restoring cpanel accounts via the SSH or command line interface.

Prerequisite :

1. Root user password.
2. Cpanel account username.

Steps

1) Log-in to the server using SSH as Root user.

2) To Backup a cpanel account enter the following command on the command line, Instead of username enter your username init.

/scripts/pkgacct username

After completing backup it display location, size of file and status of backup.

3) To Restore a cpanel account enter the following command on the command line, Instead of username enter your username init.

/scripts/restorepkg username

Note – To restore the file, 1st goto the directory, that to be stored

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