How to Generate, Split, and Restore Backups

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• Root Access to a cPanel Server Required!
• Splitting and Rejoining the backup is optional.

Contents 1 Generate a Backup 2 Split the Backup 3 Transfer the Split Backups 4 Rejoin the Split Backups 5 Restore Backup

Generate a Backup

/scripts/pkgacct username

Split the Backup

split -b1024M backup_etc_etc.tar.gz cpmove-username.tar.gz.

The . at the end of the filename is important.

Transfer the Split Backups

scp username* user@host.tld:/home

Rejoin the Split Backups

cat file01 file02 file03 cpmove-username.tar.gz

Restore Backup

/scripts/restorepkg <username>

NOTE: The backup/cpmove file must be located within the /home directory.