Hi there,
I'm planning for the migration of 10 VM's running cPanel/WHM shared/reseller hosting. All accounts need to move to new cPanel/WHM VM's running on newer infrastructure.
For very specific reasons (lack of deduplication on the SAN storage for current VM's), I simply cannot afford to package all accounts and migrate them - tarring the homedir will write data I cannot recover without great difficulty from the underlying SAN storage and will most likely fill it.
Not to mention given the number & size of accounts to migrate, this would create huge amounts of server load as accounts are packaged and also restored, causing severe customer interruption.
I recall doing a similar migration 3-4 years ago and cannot remember having issues - the cPanel 'copy multiple accounts' feature allowed you to select 'stream xfer' which would pkgacct using the --skiphomedir flag and then stream (i assume rsync) the homedir as part of the move for each account. I remember this being available around version 11.24/26/28?? and it being practically flawless.
Unfortunately, I cannot seem to locate the 'Stream' option when using the 'Copy Multiple Accounts/Packages From Another Server' feature? However, it does appear when using the singular 'Copy An Account From Another Server' and as mentioned, works perfectly and is EXACTLY what I'm needing, but for multiple accounts..
Am I blind or doing something wrong? has this feature been changed or removed for multiple accounts?
I'm planning for the migration of 10 VM's running cPanel/WHM shared/reseller hosting. All accounts need to move to new cPanel/WHM VM's running on newer infrastructure.
For very specific reasons (lack of deduplication on the SAN storage for current VM's), I simply cannot afford to package all accounts and migrate them - tarring the homedir will write data I cannot recover without great difficulty from the underlying SAN storage and will most likely fill it.
Not to mention given the number & size of accounts to migrate, this would create huge amounts of server load as accounts are packaged and also restored, causing severe customer interruption.
I recall doing a similar migration 3-4 years ago and cannot remember having issues - the cPanel 'copy multiple accounts' feature allowed you to select 'stream xfer' which would pkgacct using the --skiphomedir flag and then stream (i assume rsync) the homedir as part of the move for each account. I remember this being available around version 11.24/26/28?? and it being practically flawless.
Unfortunately, I cannot seem to locate the 'Stream' option when using the 'Copy Multiple Accounts/Packages From Another Server' feature? However, it does appear when using the singular 'Copy An Account From Another Server' and as mentioned, works perfectly and is EXACTLY what I'm needing, but for multiple accounts..
Am I blind or doing something wrong? has this feature been changed or removed for multiple accounts?
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