cPanel-to-DirectAdmin conversion tool

congkai · Jan 5, 2009

wheres the hero~

hero please fix this.. haha

l0rdphi1 · Jan 13, 2009

Hi everyone,

I've updated the script to handle the homedir.tar.gz change in cPanel 11.24. I haven't had time to look at the other reported issues. The only change is the homedir.tar.gz fix.

http://kade.nu/da/da.cpanel.import.9.4.tar.gz

Thanks,
Phil.

rsbenedict · Jan 13, 2009

Thanks! That will help a lot!

Scott DeLeury · Jan 13, 2009

Lol, I had just grabbed the .93 version a couple hrs before this post, and was having major issues with it and about to post back here! Thanks Phil!

Sushant · Feb 19, 2009

Perfect..!!!

Hi there,

Yes I have just used it to transfer an account from cpanel server to directadmin server and it worked perfectly for me.

Fantastic Job!!

Sushant

Internet54 · Feb 26, 2009

Check your webmail setup. I used this script 1 year ago and my mailbox formats have never been correct.

Barakat · Mar 8, 2009

Creating DirectAdmin tarball...
Cleaning up...
Success!

1 tarballs attempted/converted.

~fin.

1000 thanks .

haywardweb · Mar 24, 2009

Failed restore

I just tried this script, but got an error on restore...
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Creating DirectAdmin tarball...
Cleaning up...
Success!

1 tarballs attempted/converted.
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admin@sea:~/user_backups$ ls -l
total 229756
-rw-r--r-- 1 admin admin 235030602 Mar 25 02:59 tom.tar.gz
-------------
Error during Restore

Details

--------------

DA didn't give any details about the error, so I'm not sure where to go from here. Any ideas?

hostpc.com · Mar 24, 2009

haywardweb said:
DA didn't give any details about the error, so I'm not sure where to go from here. Any ideas?

It's not Directadmin failing to give the details, it's the script.

Personally, I've not been able to use this script in nearly a year after the Cpanel code changes.

haywardweb · Mar 25, 2009

hostpc.com said:
It's not Directadmin failing to give the details, it's the script.

Which script? It's the DA Restore User Backup function that is failing and giving no details. If I knew where the restore script was failing, I could fix that section of the conversion script.

Personally, I've not been able to use this script in nearly a year after the Cpanel code changes.

I'm using cPanel 11.24.4-RELEASE 34599 and da.cpanel.import.9.4. What are the known issues/compatibility of these versions?

haywardweb · Mar 25, 2009

haywardweb said:
Error during Restore

Details

It seems the source of this error was a bad task.queue that wasn't cleared because cron was not installed! Fresh install and it hadn't crossed my mind that cron wouldn't be installed--they must have given me a super minimal image.

Anyway, this script is working fine now. I'm rather impressed; it transferred passwords and all.

Edit: Mail forwarders did not automatically transfer. Haven't found any other issues yet.

haywardweb · Mar 25, 2009

I wrote a patch to add email forwarders transfer feature:

Code:

--- da.cpanel.import.pl	2009-01-13 14:13:37.000000000 -0800
+++ da.cpanel.import.mine.pl	2009-03-25 15:03:52.000000000 -0700
@@ -428,8 +428,33 @@ $domain.     14400   IN      MX      0 $
 
 		print "($mail_count converted)$mail_list";
 
+		# Copy mail forwarders
+		print("\n\t\tAliases/Forwarders converted... ");
+		my @va;
+		my @alias;
+		my $alias_count = 0;
+
+		# Open cPanel aliases file and save in array
+		open(VAFILE, "${ROOT_PATH}import/$incoming_user/va/$domain");
+		@va = <VAFILE>;
+		close(VAFILE);
+
+		# Create DirectAdmin aliases file, convert aliases,
+		# and append to DirectAdmin aliases file
+		open(DAALIASES, ">${ROOT_PATH}export/$incoming_user/backup/$domain/email/aliases");
+		foreach $line (@va)
+		{
+			if ( $line=~/\@$domain: / )
+			{
+				@alias = split(/\@$domain: /,$line);
+				print DAALIASES $alias[0] . ":" . $alias[1];
+				$alias_count++;
+			}
+		}
+		close (DAALIASES);
+		print("($alias_count converted)");
+
 		# create some empty files (to keep DA from croaking)...
-		open GH, ">${ROOT_PATH}export/$incoming_user/backup/$domain/email/aliases"; close GH;
 		open GH, ">${ROOT_PATH}export/$incoming_user/backup/$domain/email/autoresponder.conf"; close GH;
 		open GH, ">${ROOT_PATH}export/$incoming_user/backup/$domain/email/vacation.conf"; close GH;
 		open GH, ">${ROOT_PATH}export/$incoming_user/backup/$domain/email/email.conf"; close GH;

Disclaimer: I don't know Perl. This was my first experience, but it seems to work quite well.

jimmy1987 · Apr 6, 2009

The following I'm trying the cpanel to da conversion tool.

The import and export folders are in /root.
The da.cpanel.import.pl is also in /root.

But when I execute the da.cpanel.import.pl in my shell it asks a few things and I get:

Checking for ./import/... FAILED

What did I do wrong or didn't do?

haywardweb · Apr 6, 2009

jimmy1987 said:
What did I do wrong or didn't do?

Hard to say... what is the output of:

Code:

ls -l /root

jimmy1987 · Apr 7, 2009

Code:

[root@da ~]# ls -l /root
total 72
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 21171 Apr  6 20:11 da.cpanel.import.pl
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   267 Apr  6 20:01 defaults.conf
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root  4096 Apr  6 21:58 export
drwx--x--x 2 root root  4096 Apr  6 21:58 import
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 33439 Apr  4 22:33 setup.sh
[root@da ~]#

daveyw · Apr 7, 2009

Have you changed the '$ROOT_PATH' maybe in da.cpanel.import.pl ?

Code:

$ROOT_PATH = './';

jimmy1987 · Apr 7, 2009

Code:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use vars qw( $VERSION $ROOT_PATH );

$VERSION = '.9.4';
$ROOT_PATH = './';

&main;

That is my first piece of the code.

Edit:

Tried it the same way on my cpanel server now and there it worked the first time, it's converting as we speak.
Maybe had something to do with the scp of the import folder i did.

djmessy · May 9, 2009

Help!

I have tried countless times to get my rather large cpanel complete backup to migrate over to a DA backup. I have looked over countless details and am still having issues. If someone could possible help me it would be appreciated. I get to the point that it is working on the server but keeps giving an error and will not complete. Is there something special I need to have setup on cpanel so that it will match something on the DA server?

Examining backup-5.9.2009_09-48-04_lhent.tar.gz...
Fround user lhent..tar: backup-5.9.2009_09-48-04_lhent/homedir.tar: Wrote only 1024 of 10240 bytes

gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file
tar: Unexpected EOF in archive
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
.
Switching to lhentertainment.net...
Collecting subdomains...
testing.lhentertainment.net
my.lhentertainment.net
Building DNS...
Processing FTPs...
Collecting pop3 addresses...
Copying remaining files... mv: cannot stat `./import/lhent/homedir/public_html': No such file or directory

Creating domain pointers...
Translating any Crontab entries... 0 total..
Dumping databases...
Creating DirectAdmin tarball...
Cleaning up...
Success!

1 tarballs attempted/converted.

~fin.

SupermanInNY · May 9, 2009

djmessy said:
I have tried countless times to get my rather large cpanel complete backup to migrate over to a DA backup. I have looked over countless details and am still having issues. If someone could possible help me it would be appreciated. I get to the point that it is working on the server but keeps giving an error and will not complete. Is there something special I need to have setup on cpanel so that it will match something on the DA server?

Examining backup-5.9.2009_09-48-04_lhent.tar.gz...
Fround user lhent..tar: backup-5.9.2009_09-48-04_lhent/homedir.tar: Wrote only 1024 of 10240 bytes

gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file
tar: Unexpected EOF in archive
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
.
Switching to lhentertainment.net...
Collecting subdomains...
testing.lhentertainment.net
my.lhentertainment.net
Building DNS...
Processing FTPs...
Collecting pop3 addresses...
Copying remaining files... mv: cannot stat `./import/lhent/homedir/public_html': No such file or directory

Creating domain pointers...
Translating any Crontab entries... 0 total..
Dumping databases...
Creating DirectAdmin tarball...
Cleaning up...
Success!

1 tarballs attempted/converted.

~fin.

Try to rename the file to: lhent.tar.gz and then run the process.
Use Reseller level backups and process them. Not the user level.

djmessy · May 11, 2009

reseller level backup

Where in the cpanel/whm do I locate the reseller level backup option?

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