Migrating between drives

If you had an existing full server backup, you may want to use that to restore settings and data to the new server.

 

I have a similar situation, but I don't have a cpanel backup. What I have is the old drive filesystem mounted on a directory. Inside it I have everything /home /etc /usr /var

 

I think /home it would be no brainer to copy

Also I think we need the following directory to copy the Apache and virtual hosts conf *
/usr/local/apache/conf

For MySQL I think we should copy * :

/var/lib/mysql

Also we need some files from /etc for users linux accounts, DNS config ..etc [still working on it] *

* I am not sure wither it would be safe to copy the whole above three directories or we should copy some files selectivily

 

Yes, and this is what am trying to investigate right now. But we hope that Cpanel Support staff can answer us and spare us the time, efforts and mistakes. My server is been down since 4th July.

 

The support staff do not frequent these forums. Waiting for a response from them via these forums is not conducive to your goal. You may want to just submit a support ticket: http://tickets.cpanel.net/submit

 

This can be configured via WHM in the Backups section and forced to run immediately by running /scripts/cpbackup

 

Rsync is a good method to do such a move too. You can have the DC reload the OS on the new drive and the have them slave the old drive on /backup. Then you can rsync all needed files from the old drive as they are to duplicate the drive. If you need what exact files to rsync, please pm me.