Restoring a backup already on the server??

[iHost.net.nz]

I did a full backup...

but now I want to restore it..

The file is pretty big, and will take up loads of bandwidth..

Is there a way to restore it while its already on the server??

SSH possibly? Will it restore ALL the files/settings?

Cheers

[linux-image]

is there a backup already at the server ? then you can do it . else no matter whether you scp it or ftp it; your bandwidth is sure to go.

[iHost.net.nz]

yeah....

so what I can do is unzip it using the ungzip command?

bandwidth is no problem

[linux-image]

you can use the restore account feature at the WHM for this. I do not think untaring it manually is a feasible solution.

It could have been done if you are restoring one account. Else it is better to make your WHM do the work.

[zentity]

Place the full backup tar.gz file in /home and run

/scripts/restorepkg user ('user' being the cpanel account username for that backup)

or use whm to restore the backup as someone already mentioned.

[linux-image]

this is fine in case he has a single domain to restore. In case of multiple domains tar'd togather he will have to write a script to update all the users.

[zentity]

this is fine in case he has a single domain to restore. In case of multiple domains tar'd togather he will have to write a script to update all the users.

Create a file (userlist) with all the user names, 1 per line in it, that you have back up files of in /home, place all the backup files in /home

#!/bin/sh
for user in `cat userlist`
do
/scripts/restorepkg $user
done

Running that that would work ok for multiple accounts.

[linux-image]

in case they are individual cpmove.tar files then this is good in case you want a complete server restore.
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#!/bin/sh
for user in `cat /etc/trueuserdomains | cut -d : -f 2`
do
/scripts/restorepkg $user
done
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