pkgacct/restorepkg replacement?

[xous]

Hi,

Currently my strategy for moving large cPanel accounts in a reasonable amount of time is somewhat of a kludge.

USER=useraccount

rsync -av /home/${USER} newserver.example.net:/home
mkdir /home/${USER}.tmp
mv /home/${USER}/{mail,public_html,public_ftp,tmp} /home/${USER}.tmp
pkgacct ${USER}
rsync -av /home/cpmove-${USER}.tar.gz newserver.example.net:/home
mv /home/${USER}.tmp/* /home/${USER}/
rmdir /home/${USER}.tmp
rm /home/cpmove-${USER}.tar.gz

Warning this was done from memory and may not be entirely accurate do not use.

Doing as above saves hours when doing backups but also takes the users site offline while the the cpbackup is created (usually only a minute with all the data removed).

I was hoping cPanel might provide a version of pkgacct that allows you to pass --exclude-from to the tar command ran by pkgacct.

Does anyone else have a more elegant solution to the problem?

[cpanelkenneth]

You can pass --skiphomedir to prevent inclusion of /home/user in the resulting tarball.

Also, the existence of .cpbackup-skip in a directory will cause the directory to be skipped.