Unique backup/restore situation. Need advice.
Thanks for viewing. Here's my situation:
A small "hosting" company, and I use that term loosely, has turned their "accounts" over to me. I now, of course, need to transfer those accounts to my server. Here's the catch; this "hosting" company was using an unlimited account at BlueHost and has 30+ add-on domains (under the main account) that represent the accounts that I now need to setup on my server.
I can't just simply use WHM's import tool since it'll throw them all under one main account with 30+ addon domains. Obviously, I will need to be putting each account on their own account. The files and databases are not my concern - though advice never hurts. My concern is what to do with the email accounts. A master list of passwords was not kept, and it would be a disaster contacting each client to get passwords that they may or may not know. I want this to be as seamless as possible for the clients, though they'll more than likely have to update their email outgoing port. I don't want them to have to worry about anything else.
What is going to be the most efficient and effective way of getting all that information to the new server and into their own individual accounts without chaos?
Any and all advice would be greatly appreciated.
Note: I do not have root access via BlueHost.
Thanks for viewing. Here's my situation:
A small "hosting" company, and I use that term loosely, has turned their "accounts" over to me. I now, of course, need to transfer those accounts to my server. Here's the catch; this "hosting" company was using an unlimited account at BlueHost and has 30+ add-on domains (under the main account) that represent the accounts that I now need to setup on my server.
I can't just simply use WHM's import tool since it'll throw them all under one main account with 30+ addon domains. Obviously, I will need to be putting each account on their own account. The files and databases are not my concern - though advice never hurts. My concern is what to do with the email accounts. A master list of passwords was not kept, and it would be a disaster contacting each client to get passwords that they may or may not know. I want this to be as seamless as possible for the clients, though they'll more than likely have to update their email outgoing port. I don't want them to have to worry about anything else.
What is going to be the most efficient and effective way of getting all that information to the new server and into their own individual accounts without chaos?
Any and all advice would be greatly appreciated.
Note: I do not have root access via BlueHost.
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