Hello, 
It seems that you want to copy files which owned by nobody.
You need to change the ownership of the files/folders.
Regards,
Ravindra Dhainwal
http://www.Host.co.in
cPanel Reseller Hosting
It seems that you want to copy files which owned by nobody.
You need to change the ownership of the files/folders.
Regards,
Ravindra Dhainwal
http://www.Host.co.in
cPanel Reseller Hosting
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I don't think this is correct. It is my understanding that the nobody files should have been copied... at least they have been for me in the past.
That is correct. Files owned by the 'nobody' user should still be copied. My suggestion is to open a support ticket at https://tickets.cpanel.net/submit/ to determine what went wrong and have it resolved.
Although I believe 'nobody' files were predominantly not copied, I believe other files were missing too. Likewise some 'nobody' files were copied in some account transfers.
I filed a ticket request (#265334) about accounts in multiple accounts transfers randomly failing due to password failed messages. Perhaps this issue is related. The outcome of that ticket was the suggestion that an older version of OpenSSL installed on the old server being copied from (version 0.9.7a) was either badly configuring (I am doubtful of this) or incompatible in some way with a newer version on the new server (OpenSSL 0.9.8b). Perhaps this was the cause for my file copying problems too.
At the end of the day I wrote two Perl scripts. One script I ran to archive all public_html files for each account into a folder. I then transferred them all via SCP to the new server and then ran a script to extract all the files without overwriting pre-existing files in user accounts. This resolved the issues with missing files.
If anyone has a similar issue, I have attached these scripts in case you wish to use them. Although I recommend adjusting the folders copied to/from within each.
Depending upon the specific versions of cPanel involved, there was a bug, fixed late in the 11.23 cycle, where accounts with many files (e.g. 30,000+) would have files skipped, often the entire public_html directory.