How To Clone Account To New Name?

[TheKog]

I'm looking for a solution to how to clone an account backed up with the pckgacct scripts or otherwise.

Assume I have an account called test with domain www.test.com for example, I'd like to clone it into another account called test2 with domain www.test2.com so I can do development on the cloned account.

I used to do this with 2 different servers just copy the account (backup) to the development server and then change the domain from WHM on the copied account - I no longer have the development server and would like to make this all work on a single server. The clone procedure needs to get everything a cpanel backup would get including files, MySQL DBs etc.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

[PlatinumServerM]

Unfortunately there is no clone function.

However, you can do this by packaging userA, then rename username and domain of userA to userB, then restore the packaged account back to userA. You'll be left with userA and userB with the same files.

You have to check the email accounts and mysql specifically because that can get tricky.

[thewebhosting]

It is advisable to take full backup of emails, databases before making the username change.