Problems moving large cpanel account - pkgacct also failing

[santrix]

Large account approx 17Gb... After failing to copy this using WHM, any method I tried... I thought I would try to do it from the shell...

/scripts/pckacct xxxxnet gives this:

pkgacct started.
pkgacct version 10 - user : xxxxnet - tarball: 1 - target mysql : default - split: 0 - incremental: 0 - homedir: 1 - archive version: 3 - running with uid 0
pkgacct working dir : /home/cpmove-xxxxnet
Copying Reseller Config...Done
Copying Suspension Info (if needed)...Done
Copying SSL Certificates, CSRS, and Keys...Done
Copying Domain Keys....Done
Copying Counter Data....Done
Copying Bandwidth Data......xxxxnet-ftp-rate.rrd....xxxxnet-all-peak.rrd....store.xxxx.net-all-rate.rrd....xxxxnet-imap-peak.rrd....store.xxxx.net-http-peak.rrd....xxxxnet-http-peak.rrd....store.xxxx.net....sonar.xxxx.net-all-peak.rrd....xxxxnet-smtp-peak.rrd....xxxxnet-http-rate.rrd....xxxx.net-http-peak.rrd....sonar.xxxx.net....xxxx.net....xxxxnet-pop3-rate.rrd....xxxxnet-imap-rate.rrd....farnearer.xxxx.net....sonar.xxxx.net-http-peak.rrd....store.xxxx.net-all-peak.rrd....xxxxnet....farnearer.xxxx.net-all-peak.rrd....sonar.xxxx.net-http-rate.rrd....farnearer.xxxx.net-http-rate.rrd....xxxx.net-http-rate.rrd....farnearer.xxxx.net-all-rate.rrd....xxxxnet-ftp-peak.rrd....xxxxnet-all-rate.rrd....store.xxxx.net-http-rate.rrd....xxxxnet-pop3-peak.rrd....xxxxnet-smtp-rate.rrd....xxxx.net-all-rate.rrd....farnearer.xxxx.net-http-peak.rrd....sonar.xxxx.net-all-rate.rrd....xxxx.net-all-peak.rrd..Done
Copying Dns Zones.......farnearer.com......xxxx.net...Done
Copying Mail files....Done
Copying frontpage files....Done
Copying proftpd file....Done
Copying www logs.......log file sizes [4716377 byte(s)]......xxxx.net-smtpbytes_log......store.xxxx.net......xxxx.net-bytes_log.offset......sonar.xxxx.net......ftp.xxxx.net-ftp_log......cloud.xxxx.net......store.xxxx.net-bytes_log......ftp.xxxx.net-ftp_log.offset......xxxx.net......ftp.xxxx.net-ftp_log.offsetftpbytes......sonar.xxxx.net-bytes_log......cloud.xxxx.net-bytes_log......farnearer.xxxx.net......xxxx.net-bytes_log......farnearer.xxxx.net-bytes_log......farnearer.com...Done
Copy userdata...Done
Copy custom virtualhost templates...Done
Copying mailman lists and archives..../bin/gtar: attachments/20101117/adf0cced/attachment.html: Cannot utime: No such file or directory
/bin/gtar: attachments/20101117/facb6f99/attachment-0001.html: Cannot utime: No such file or directory <<--- then a hundred similar lines
/bin/gtar: attachments/20101103/b104b98a/attachment.html: Cannot open: No such file or directory <<--- then thousands of similar lines
/bin/gtar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
Destination does not exist (/home/cpmove-xxxxsnet/mma/pub/accounts_xxxx.net), creating.
Unable to create destination directory (/home/cpmove-xxxxsnet/mma/pub/accounts_xxxx.net). Failing.

Any clues?

 

[handsonhosting]

Have you verified that you have enough space on the hard drive to handle the files? You not only have to have the exist 17GB, but a temporary storage for another 17GB while it creates a new TAR file of 10-12GB. So you need quite a bit of space available.

Also, check your version of TAR and make sure you're running the latest version. There was an issue late last year with version 1.24-1 which may be related.

 

[acenetgeorge]

When packaging an account that large, try using the --skiphomedir flag, and then restore the account on the second server.
That will copy all the account settings and everything but the /home/username directory.

Then, use rsync in screen to copy the /home/username directory and its contents. You should be all set after the rsync finishes.

 

[santrix]

Hi. I think the problem here is that the vast majority of the space used by the account is mailman (15Gb)... the server has 60G+ free on /home, but the root partition / only has about 5Gb free, so --skiphomedir probably isn't going to help... is there a way to specify the temporary path for this single operation?

 

[cPanelTristan]

Could you simply move the mailman archives out of the way for the user?

cd /usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailman/archives/private
mv listname_domain.com /home
mv listname_domain.com.mbox /home

After the account has been packaged and moved over, you could then simply try to manually copy over the archives to the new machine with scp.