Transferring all your cpanel accounts using shell

Transferring all your cpanel accounts using shell

Transferring all your cpanel accounts using shell.

First we need to create all accounts backup on your current server, execute following command

cat /var/cpanel/users | while read line; do
/scripts/pkgacct $line
done

All accounts are backuped up under /home, now transfer all accounts backup to your new server using SCP command line.

scp cpmove-* root@new-server-ip:/home

Now to resoter the accounts.

To restore all accounts, put all the users in the file named users on the new server /home

cat /home/users | while read line; do
/scripts/restorepkg $line
done