How to recover a deleted account

[paulg]

Hello,
I need to restore/recover an account that was accidentally deleted/terminated. I don't have a cpmove tarball to restore from; all I have are backups (R1Soft) of the data. Can someone give me a list of all the files/directories that I need to restore so everything works again (ie DNS, MySQL, Cron jobs, additional domains, subdomains, etc)? I'm very grateful.
Thanks,
Paul

[WebScHoLaR]

First create a fresh account with the same username and domain name from the server so that entries will be added to required files. Here are the directories that you need to restore the following with OVERRIDE option checked in R1soft:

/home/username
/var/cpanel/users/username
/var/cpanel/userdata/username
/var/lib/mysql/username* (Restore the databases)

DNS zone files need to be restored too from /var/named/ but the entry in /etc/named.conf need to be added again or you can just add new dns entries/zones.

Once you restore all these, you may need to correct ownership and rebuild files:

chown -Rvh useranme.username username
chgrp -v nobody /home/username/public_html
chgrp -v mail etc mail
/scripts/updateuserdomains
/usr/local/cpanel/bin/build_apache_conf
/scripts/restartsrv httpd

[brianoz]

We have the cpanel hook script /scripts/prekillacct created, which does a backup of the account just before deleting it.

That way, if you delete an account accidentally, you still have a copy of the account which you can restore.

[paulg]

Thank you both. Your comments were very helpful.

[paulg]

For future reference, add /var/spool/cron/username to the list of files that need to be restored. This file will only exist if the user has created cron jobs.