Let's say I run into a situation where I need to replace my physical server and restore all the files, but my WHM account and full system backup is a day old. Since that backup, a few accounts may have gotten new email and a few databases may have been updated. For simplicity sets assume no files in the accounts (such as html files on the websites, etc) had been added/changed. Let's also assume the old server is accessible only via SSH command line shell and WHM/Cpanel is inaccessible.
What would I need to do to get everything restored properly? My guess is...
- Restore system and account backups.
- Shut down MySQL and then copy the mysql files from each account. I assume it would not be a good idea to copy the other databases as then I would potentially overwrite my WHM/Cpanel config with corrupted data if the older server's WHM/Cpanel setup had become corrupted. Where are all the account MySql data file located? After copy, restart MySQL
- Shut down the email MTA (how?) and then copy all the account email files over (from where?) Then restart the MTA.
Anything I'm missing if all I'm trying to do is get the MySQL DBs and emails that were on the old server? I don't really care about missing log files, bandwidth data, etc.
What would I need to do to get everything restored properly? My guess is...
- Restore system and account backups.
- Shut down MySQL and then copy the mysql files from each account. I assume it would not be a good idea to copy the other databases as then I would potentially overwrite my WHM/Cpanel config with corrupted data if the older server's WHM/Cpanel setup had become corrupted. Where are all the account MySql data file located? After copy, restart MySQL
- Shut down the email MTA (how?) and then copy all the account email files over (from where?) Then restart the MTA.
Anything I'm missing if all I'm trying to do is get the MySQL DBs and emails that were on the old server? I don't really care about missing log files, bandwidth data, etc.
