Migrate Addon To Its Own Account

[jman_]

The title says it all. Have an addon to an account, would like to make it its own account. The web content is not an issue - just backup, delete addon, recreate as its own account, then copy back into the new space.

Problem is with email. How best to migrate the exisiting email & forwarders to the new account?

Some of the email accounts are used web-only, so I don't want to lose the existing messages.

This would be all staying on the same server.

Thanks!

[thewebhosting]

You will have to make the complete or (Full-cpanel) backup and have to restore it after the migration of your addon domain.

You can take the full backup from your cPanel-->Backups->Generate/Download a full backup.

[jman_]

Sorry, that is clear as mud.

-> You will have to make the complete or (Full-cpanel) backup and have to restore it after the migration of your addon domain.

-> You can take the full backup from your cPanel-->Backups->Generate/Download a full backup.

I know I can back up the entire account. Alas, so far as I can tell, neither account or WHM backup save the mail itself (a requirement, as some users on the current addon access mail only via the web, so have no local copy). So, this is not a viable solution.

As far as "after the migration" goes, if I could migrate I wouldn't need to restore!

Again, what I'm after here is taking an account's addon domain data (web, mysql, and email - including messages, forwards & filters) and making that an account of its own. It would no longer be an addon to another account. It's all staying on the same server.

When done, all email from the addon would be available in the newly created account, and for the folks that use mail clients, the last message pointer would NOT be reset, so it wouldn't download their whole inbox again next time they checked messages.

From looking at the gui, that doesn't look possible. Plus, as mentioned, you don't get the email.

Anyone have an idea on how to best accomplish this? Web & mysql aren't the problem here, that's trivial. It's moving the mail I can't quite figure.

Am fairly comfortable with the shell, figure this would not be a gui solution, just looking for pointers...

Thanks!

[jman_]

Anyone have an idea how to do this?

[heyjohnboy]

Do you have root access to the server?

[thewebhosting]

Try to copy the /home/user/mail and /home/user/etc from the add on domain user and paste it on the /home/newuser/mail and /home/newuser/etc and have a try.

[dherb73]

Any word on how that suggestion worked?

I'm surprised there is not a native cPanel script or WHM function to handle this task, as I would assume it would be a commonly desired process.