It seems as of cPanel 11.28 that WHM will no longer package with --skiphomedir the account and then stream the home directory. Is there a setting to revert it back to the previous behavior by chance that I've missed?
The new method is creating incredibly large loads & sluggishness on the source server while large accounts are being transferred and then the same large loads and sluggishness on the destination server when the account is being restored.
While there may be a "good" reason for this, or maybe somebody who doesn't do transfers on a regular basis though this change would be good - but for large-scale moves such as migrating to new hardware, this is absolutely atrocious.
I wouldn't be here posting this if there was simply a box to select for "stream home directories" instead of none and it doing it the way it's doing it now.
In 3 days I will be transferring 1,500 GB worth of data from several servers to new hardware and the way the system does it now, it's going to cause substantial downtime for customers that would have otherwise had no issues at all with the old method of transferring accounts using this tool.
The only thing that I can think at this point (which almost defeats the purpose of the transfer tool, imho) is to transfer the accounts without the home directory, rsync the /home over manually either before I begin copying accounts themselves or just afterwards... This creates more labor where as the older version of the tool would have accomplished all of this without the extra work.
I'm very frustrated, maybe somebody can point me to a setting I've missed to revert this behavior.
The new method is creating incredibly large loads & sluggishness on the source server while large accounts are being transferred and then the same large loads and sluggishness on the destination server when the account is being restored.
While there may be a "good" reason for this, or maybe somebody who doesn't do transfers on a regular basis though this change would be good - but for large-scale moves such as migrating to new hardware, this is absolutely atrocious.
I wouldn't be here posting this if there was simply a box to select for "stream home directories" instead of none and it doing it the way it's doing it now.
In 3 days I will be transferring 1,500 GB worth of data from several servers to new hardware and the way the system does it now, it's going to cause substantial downtime for customers that would have otherwise had no issues at all with the old method of transferring accounts using this tool.
The only thing that I can think at this point (which almost defeats the purpose of the transfer tool, imho) is to transfer the accounts without the home directory, rsync the /home over manually either before I begin copying accounts themselves or just afterwards... This creates more labor where as the older version of the tool would have accomplished all of this without the extra work.
I'm very frustrated, maybe somebody can point me to a setting I've missed to revert this behavior.
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