Recreating accounts from folders not packages

columbusgeek

• July 18, 2019 06:49

Hi all. Historically I set up my servers so the main drive is running WHM and an additional drive is the one holding all the user accounts in /home2. I had a situation that left my server unbootable but I still have the additional /home2 drive that is mountable. What is the best course of action to get back up and running quickly? I currently plan on firing up a new WHM instance and rebuilding but the account import has me scratching my head. In order to rebuild the accounts, it looks like I have to zip each account into a user.tar.gz? Is there a way to mount the /home2 drive and point WHM to those folders and have it rebuild? It's 30+ accounts so the most hands-off approach is what I am hoping for.

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  GOT

  • July 18, 2019 13:29

  Without the main drive, you are missing too much data. For example, all your mysql databases are on the main drive as is all teh cPanel account information files. I hope you also have backups. Otherwise I would focus on getting that main drive back to a bootable state.

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  columbusgeek

  • July 18, 2019 13:52

  I hope you also have backups.

  
  Oh buttloads of backups for sure. Good point about the DBs. For some reason, I thought they were stored inside the user accounts but now that I think about that it makes no sense. They only get copied there once you do an account package. Okey dokie, no big deal. Nothing is mission-critical here anyhow.

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  cPanelMichael

  • July 22, 2019 21:04

  Hello @columbusgeek, The following document may offer some help: Full Disaster Recovery - cPanel Knowledge Base - cPanel Documentation Thank you.

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  columbusgeek

  • July 23, 2019 12:26

  Thanks @cPanelMichael . Yep, I was using that page for sure. Once I set my /home2 directory I was able to simply use the Backup Restoration to rebuild them all. Didn't take long and wasn't as annoying as I thought it was going to be.

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