Can't Restore Account

[cjmwebdesigns]

Today my client crashed his website and asked for me to do a restore.

Practice for me was to always remove the account and then do the restore with the database.

The system continues to fail. It seems to believe the account exists on the system, but does not exist when I look for it.

The restore failed because the username “newbed1” is invalid or not an existing cPanel user.
Failed: Account Restore Failed: “Account failure: The restore failed because the username “acctname1” is invalid or not an existing cPanel user.”

Little garbled from the copy and paste...

Even when I attempt to restore from CP Full backup and click overwrite existing user it fails.

How do I find where this username is hung on the server?

 

[Infopro]

Even when I attempt to restore from CP Full backup and click overwrite existing user it fails.

Sounds like you're trying to restore the backup from the cPanel account, instead of WHM. Is that correct? Here are docs for properly restoring a cPanel backup:
Restore a Full Backup/cpmove File - Documentation - cPanel Documentation

 

[cjmwebdesigns]

Sounds like you're trying to restore the backup from the cPanel account, instead of WHM. Is that correct? Here are docs for properly restoring a cPanel backup:
Restore a Full Backup/cpmove File - Documentation - cPanel Documentation

Nope, that is exactly how I am doing it. When I click Overwrite existing user it fails with the error above. If I restore without the checkbox it tells me that the account exists.

Within my own support system I tried to create and it says users exists, tried to delete, says data cannot be found.

I have no idea where WHM/cPanel sees this account name.

 

[cPanelMichael]

Hello

Please ensure you enter a valid username (all lowercase characters). Do you notice any additional output to /usr/local/cpanel/logs/error_log when attempting to create this user?

Thank you.

 

[cjmwebdesigns]

After finally searching the right combination of words I found this post and resolved my issue:

The restore failed because the username “xxxx” is invalid or not an existing cPanel user.

 

[cPanelMichael]

I am happy to see the issue is now resolved. Thank you for updating us with the outcome.