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nootkan
I had a hard drive start to fail on my server and had my data center replace it. Before doing so I forgot to back up all my WHM settings among a few others. Luckily I get to have access to my original drive for seven days before it is removed. I read through this documentation:

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  • Patrick Heinz
    It doesn't matter which directory you are running this command. What do matter is the --restore path. It show point to previously backup in your server (or your drive in case you not copied that file to server)
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  • nootkan
    Thank you for your reply, however I'm not sure I understand what you're trying to tell me. I want restore the WHM config file which is the tar.gz file. The way I understand the script is /usr/local/cpanel/bin/cpconftool --configurations=cpanel::system::whmconf --restore=/home/whm-config-backup-all-1.1-1461360975.tar.gz --this part defines the file to restore, right? --preresore_backup --this part is supposed to be where you want the file to be restored to, right? Also should --preresore_backup actually be --prerestore_backup? I just copied the text from the original post which could be a "typeO" So I believe this is what you're trying to tell me and if so, how do I know where the WHM file is supposed to go to? In other words, where is it located on the server so I can get the backup to the right path? Thanks.
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  • ModServ
    Tweak Settings are located in /var/cpanel/cpanel.config, you can transfer it manually and get rid of these hassle. Hope that helps :)
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  • cPanelMichael
    Hello :)
    I had a hard drive start to fail on my server and had my data center replace it. Before doing so I forgot to back up all my WHM settings among a few others. Luckily I get to have access to my original drive for seven days before it is removed.

    Could you verify how you are accessing the the original drive to generate the configuration file backups? Also, which version of cPanel was installed on that system? The documentation you have linked to is for cPanel version 56. The documentation for cPanel version 54 is found at: The cpconftool Script - Version 54 Documention - cPanel Documentation Thank you.
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  • nootkan
    Tweak Settings are located in /var/cpanel/cpanel.config, you can transfer it manually and get rid of these hassle. Hope that helps :)

    Modserv, thanks for that. I was actually looking for all the WHM settings and not just the Tweak Settings but I'll copy those over too.
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  • nootkan
    Hello :) Could you verify how you are accessing the the original drive to generate the configuration file backups? Also, which version of cPanel was installed on that system? The documentation you have linked to is for cPanel version 56. The documentation for cPanel version 54 is found at:
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  • cPanelMichael
    Michael. my data center mounted the old drive on the server so I could copy over the config files and others that I forgot to backup. I've been using sftp mostly but the occasional ssh command also to copy over the files. I'm not sure what cPanel version was installed on the old drive, I can only assume it was a version before the one that is installed now because of the new drive and OS etc.

    The /usr/local/cpanel/bin/cpconftool script is designed to be ran on an active system to generate the backup configuration files, as opposed to packaging configuration files from a mounted drive. Thus, you would have to manually copy over the configuration data from the files available on the mounted drive. Is there any particular configuration data you are having trouble copying over or replicating? Thank you.
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