How to force a backup of an existing user account?

[psydoc]

Hi,

I hope this is the correct place for this question.

I am attempting to restore a client's website. I have copied his last full backup into root/home/ for example /home/backup.1.24.2010_xx-xx-xx_username.tar.gz

When I attempt to run the following command from root, I get the error "no restorable archives found"

No archives were found for usr --force!!

# /scripts/restorepkg  /home/backup-1.24.2010_xx-xx-xx_username.tar.gz --force

I must be missing something; but, for the life of me, I can't figure out what.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I should also add that I already did a /scripts/restorepkg username that gave the same error as above without the "found for usr --force

 

[psydoc]

I am making some progress, I think.

I changed the location of --force in my command

# /scripts/restorepkg --force  /home/backup-1.24.2010_xx-xx-xx_username.tar.gz

The problem now is that it automatically recognizes an earlier backup in the /home directory. It still fails as that seems to be corrupted.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Infopro]

It appears you'd like to restore via the command line. There is an easier way if you're interested:
Restore Backups

 

[psydoc]

I am always interested in easier.

The only problem was that this was a local user full backup.

The cPanel backup wizard did not work. It just kept requesting a connection, for hours.

What I finally did was terminate the user account, upload the backup via sfpt to /home and then issue the command

# /scripts/restorepkg --force backupfilename.tar.gz

That did the trick.

I looked at the link you posted early on in this process, but it did not help me.

Thanks for the post, though.