Bluehost won't allow a full cpanel backup

[ttremain]

Doing some work for a client, who wishes to move from Bluehost to a VPS.

Bluehost no longer allows backups from cpanel, and the "WHM Home » Transfers » Copy an Account From Another Server With an Account Password" doesn't work because they appear to have purposely broken it on the sender's end.

Bluehost support refuses to create a backup other than a zip file for the home directory.

Is my only other option to move all the files and databases manually, and then export and re-import all the mailboxes?

Please advise.

 

[keat63]

I guess it depends really on how many domains you wish to move and how many email addresses etc.

A few years back I performed something very similar, moving from a rubbish host to my own dedicated server.
I had about 8 domains to transfer.


All my email users were on POP3, so there was no email data to migrate.
All I had to do was recreate the email accounts on the new server.
Copied the public_html folder over.

Perfom a dummy run on copying the database etc.

I did each domain manually.
It wasn't actually that difficult as most of the work could be done in parallel, leaving the real database migration until 5 minutes before updating the nameserver changes.

 

[GOT]

There is a command line tool called imapsync that I believe is in epel that you can use to copy the email boxes over. Yes it's still one by one. But it's an option.

 

[cPanelLauren]

We do have some tutorials on imapsync available, here in the forums

Tutorial - How To Sync IMAP Mailboxes Using Imapsync

How To Sync IMAP Mailboxes Using Imapsync Warnings • We recommend that only experienced system administrators perform these steps. SSH access and root-level privileges are required to execute the commands included in this tutorial. • cPanel...

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HOW TO: Using IMAPSync to Transfer mail from server to server

There is an active feature request to have cPanel add a tool to help migrate IMAP Mailboxes from a non-cPanel server to a cPanel server. This is very important if you are trying to help a customer move to your cPanel hosting service, from a non-cPanel server. You can read (and vote on) the...

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But I do have feel the need to say that this is a horrible practice for end users, in the event you want to keep your own backup of your site