Move accounts between servers except mail

Rogerio

• June 26, 2018 15:05

Hello, I have a dedicated server with some accounts, but 3 of them have, together, more than 1 Tb of IMAP mail messages. Both servers are 100 mbits only, and will take a lot of time to transfer. My ideia is transfer the accounts except the "mail" folders. Reason: I can rsync the mail folders to a separated folder on the new server before transfer everything else and change the DNS. Everyday I can rsync only changes until the migration day. And then do a final rsync in the migration day, replace the "empty" folder with that rsync'ed, transfer everything else (website, mysql, email accounts (passwords), DNS and so), restoring the latest version of /home/user folder. Any ideas how to accomplish this? I need to do everything in one sunday, so the Transfer Tool for immediate change is not possible. Thanks.

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  cPanelMichael

  • June 28, 2018 18:31

  Hello @Rogerio, The easiest approach would be to uncheck Copy Home Directory for those three accounts when using WHM >> Transfer Tool to copy the accounts to the destination server. Then, use rsync to manually transfer the data from the home directories for those accounts (/home/$username/) as needed and in the order you prefer. Thank you.

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  Rogerio

  • July 02, 2018 19:25

  Hello @cPanelMichael great, question: unchecking "Copy Home Directory" will not affect any data, like mail passwords, MySQL databases, etc? Just a rsync and set owner is enough? Rogerio

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  cPanelLauren

  • July 03, 2018 14:41

  HI @Rogerio MySQL databases are stored in the MySQL directory not in /home/$user so they would be unaffected. I would ensure that when you perform the rsync you include all folders besides mail if you want to do that separately.

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  Rogerio

  • July 03, 2018 22:34

  Thank you, @cPanelLauren

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  Rogerio

  • July 04, 2018 00:10

  Hello @cPanelMichael and @cPanelLauren Worked, thank you. But I had to set new GID and UID to each folder on /home/user. How can I fix owner and permissions since the UID/GID are differents in the new server? And, doing this way, it didnt create /etc/apache2/logs/domlogs/user folder (symlinked on /home/user). Thanks.

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  cPanelLauren

  • July 04, 2018 15:01

  Hi @Rogerio You should be able to use chown or usermap/groupmap as described in the rsync man page: --usermap=STRING custom username mapping --groupmap=STRING custom groupname mapping --chown=USER:GROUP simple username/groupname mapping
  

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