Moving a user from one DA server to other, how?

bluebirdnet

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Hi Everyone,

Does anyone have suggestions on the best way to move a user from one DA server to another DA server?

thanks!
 
Hello,

It's quite simple: make an admin backup of the user on the first server, and restore it on the other server.
 
The OS does not matter at all. i just restored 400 users from freebsd 64bit to centos 32bit no problems.
 
I am moving someones website to our server, he has the cpanel which I did the full backup.
Now in direct admin when I go to create/restore backup there is no place where I can restore a backup. Or am I going blind?
 
The admin backup feature looks great - I will be using it shortly.

A question I have is how everyone handles inbound email during the transfer?

What do you do to prevent any loss of messages during the process?
 
Two ways to do it: suspend the site during the transfer.

or...

After you know DNS changed has worked it's way through the Internet, move all the mail again.

Jeff
 
Thank you Jeff - I certainly appreciate it. I wasn't even thinking along those lines :).

Design a quick "custom" suspend page explaining the temporary disruption and your off and running.
 
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