How to restore from server backup

[stormy]

I was hit by ThePlanet's debacle. I have offsite backups, but they are a straight backup of the server and not cPanel backups (I know, silly me!)

How should I proceed in order to restore these accounts into a new cPanel server? Moving the public_html directory is no big deal, but what about mail and mysql? Is there an easy way to restore everything?

[Chris B]

Could you clarify exactly what you mean by "a straight backup of the server" - is it a copy of the entire hard drive, including all partitions? If so, you should have all the mail, databases, config etc data on there. If it's just a copy of everyone's home directories, though, there'll be a lot of stuff missing - databases, for example, are stored in /var/lib/mysql.

[stormy]

Entire hard drive minus backup partition. However, that particular backup has since been erased (long story).