How to Backup & Restore cPanel / WHM accounts via SSH?

[Dipak Bhoi]

Hello Guys,

cPanel / WHM has a  backup and restore feature. Let's see how you can use this feature via SSH.  cPanel / WHM has a number of scripts and these are located in /scripts/ on the server.

To backup a single account via SSH:

Simply fire the following command to backup a cPanel account:

#/scripts/pkgacct username

This scrip will generate a full backup of cPanel account with name something like as  'cpmove-username.tar.gz`

This file will be generated in the home directory of the server, so path should be as below:

/home/cpmove-username.tar.gz

For Restoring an account with cPanel via SSH we use script 'restorepkg'. Run below command:

Change directory to home directory and script restorepkg follow by username of cPanel account

#cd /home
#/scripts/restorepkg username

That's all, Enjoy!!