How to copy large account from another cpanel server

[scally]

I want to copy an account to a new server.
The problem is, the account is large. The zipped backup file is 3.9Gb
The complete account is 8Gb

From what I've read, thats too big to use the standard
"Copy an account from another server" script in WHM

Is that true? - I've neven moved an account over 600Mb

If that is so, how could I get cpanel to copy the account
in exactly the same way, but not actually transfer all the
files (I would want it to do everything else including
duplicating the ftp accounts and databases.

The main things I'm interested in getting are all the
complex and time consuming things like databases and ftp accounts.

Is there a way?
I've seen the PHP cpanel API - will that work?
- or should I just try the account copy?

[rhenderson]

Make a cpanel backup of the account you want to move. Ftp that backup to /home or /root on the new server, (We usually log into ssh then from /root open ftp, then ftp to the site where the backup is and get backup.tar.gz) then go to WHM Main >> Backup >> Restore a Full Backup/cpmove file and type in the username.

This should take care of the data and FTP and MySQL. I have seen it skip add-on domains.

[scally]

Thanks
I think there only one problem with that idea
The gzipped tarfile of the whole account is 8Gb
so won't the cpanel backup be close to the same?
As far as I know, you can't ftp a file over 1Gb

[jonMEGA]

I have moved a 13GB account from one CPanel server to another. I used ssh and scp to move the backup file.

[jayh38]

The most efficient way is to split your file into multiple smaller files.
you can then upload several threads simultaneously and save some
time if the upload speed is throttled.

anyway... dont forget to do checksum and compare it after you
join it back.

example...

split -b 500000000 backup.tar.gz backup.tar.gz

(this will split your backup into 500 meg parts with the backup name and
suffix of gzaa, gzab etc etc)

on the destination server join them back with the cat command.

cat backup.tar.gz?? > backup.tar.gz

(that will combine it back)

then do your md5sum to be sure its clean.

cheers!!

[HelloAdam]

Hey,

Check out this link,
http://forums.cpanel.net/showthread.php?t=60637

From,
Adam

[scally]

Thank you.
I really appreciate all the info.
I will let you know how it goes.

Alan.

[scally]

I transferred a 2Gb account - still preparing the 10Gb account

This is what I did:
Both are cpanel, in the same data centre
On the new machine, I selected
Main >> Transfers >> Copy an account from another server with account password

This let the originating machine package the account and all the dbs abd ftp accounts, mail etc.
The account was too big to transfer, so cPanel splits it into 100Mb parts
Cpanel actually transferred the whole thing to the new server, using FTP
Thats where it failed, so I just used

Main >> Backup >> Restore a Full Backup/cpmove file

- and it was perfect

So last night, I did the same on the newsblaze.com (10Gb ) account.
cPanel split the data into 94 100Mb parts, but it failed to ftp them to the new machine
So thats where I am now, ftping the parts.

I used scp - it was really good. 5MB/second and around 20 seconds per part.


Alan