copying an account to new server via SSH

[alexgol]

I am trying to copy an account from an old server to my new server. I did a search on this forum and the easiest one I found was:

1. Log into the server that your copying the accounts from via SSH
2. type '/scripts/pkgacct [username]'
3. type 'scp cpmove-[username].tar.gz root@[NEWSERVERIP]:/home/'
4. Log into the [NEWSERVER] via SSH
5. type '/scripts/restorepkg [username]'

However I am getting stuck at no.3
3. type 'scp cpmove-[username].tar.gz root@[NEWSERVERIP]:/home/'

When I apply this after about 20 seconds I get the following message:

root@sun [~]# scp cpmove-*****.tar.gz root@**.**.**.***:/home/
ssh: connect to host **.**.**.*** port 22: Connection timed out
lost connection

(for security reason I have replaced my account name and IP)

I know for a fact that on the new server the SSH allows me to login without any problems. The firewall also is off.

Has anyone experienced this before? any feedback would be highly appreciated.
thanks

 

[Eric]

Howdy,

Can you ssh from server to server on each of these?

Thanks!

 

[alexgol]

Hi,

if you mean if I can ssh both servers then yes I can.

Also after trying several times I now get the following error:

cp: cannot stat `cpmove-******.tar.gz': No such file or directory

really strange!!

I restarted the process from the beginning and still get the same error as above.

thanks for your input

 

[Eric]

Howdy,

I was asking more along the lines of, can serverA ssh to serverB, and so forth. But it sounds like you may not have a cpmove file. Do you have /home2 or /home3, look in those too?

Thanks!

 

[alexgol]

Hi Eric,

I tried to do a WHM backup even though both WHM are same versions still got an error message:

Testing **.**.**.*** for xfer streaming support....Supported!
Packaging the account... The password you provided is not correct.

Trace Output: (
sshcmdpermissiondeny)

But I know for a fact that the password is correct.

As for home, according to my setup, it shows /home and no other names.

thanks

 

[alexgol]

can anyone suggest a way out of this?

I'm getting the following error

root@sun [/home]# cp cpmove-*****.tar.gz root@**.**.**.***/home/
cp: cannot create regular file `root@**.**.**.***/public_html/cpmove-****.tar.gz': No such file or directory
root@sun [/home]#

what am I doing wrong?

 

[Provim]

I would definitely be interested if someone gets this working. I have the same errors when trying to scp.

 

[xvihost]

can anyone suggest a way out of this?

I'm getting the following error

root@sun [/home]# cp cpmove-*****.tar.gz root@**.**.**.***/home/
cp: cannot create regular file `root@**.**.**.***/public_html/cpmove-****.tar.gz': No such file or directory
root@sun [/home]#

what am I doing wrong?

I know this post is old, but in this particular case you are missing the colon ( : ) between the IP and path. It should be:

cp cpmove-*****.tar.gz root@**.**.**.***:/home/