Directadmin Server Transfer

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Francisco

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I have been registered for quite some time, but I never needed to use Directadmin (well, like a year ago I used it).

There's a possibility that I might start using Directadmin again, however. I would like to know if Directadmin finally has a section where we can move an account from another server to another directadmin server, and so this multiple.

Let me setup an scenario.

We have server A and server B

Server A:
Celeron 700Mhz
20Gb IDE
350Gb bandwidth
280 Directadmin accounts

Server B:
New just purchased Pentium 4 3.06Ghz w/HT
1Gb Ram
80Gb IDE
1250Gb bandwidth
0 Directadmin

Server A > Server B transfer process requiered.

What to do in this case?

btw; sorry for this lame question but does DA supports CentOS and Debian fully?
 
Hello,

Welcome back to DA! They do have a feature now called backup, makes the transfer of a user from one server to another very effortlessly. You press a few buttons, enter a username and password, and away you go. The only thing you still need to do is change name servers.

As for the OS you mentioned, I *think* Debian is out of beta but not sure. I do know it is stable however. CentOS is support and out of beta.
 
quackweb said:
Hello,

Welcome back to DA! They do have a feature now called backup, makes the transfer of a user from one server to another very effortlessly. You press a few buttons, enter a username and password, and away you go. The only thing you still need to do is change name servers.

As for the OS you mentioned, I *think* Debian is out of beta but not sure. I do know it is stable however. CentOS is support and out of beta.
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Thanks for your reply, do you know if a multi-backup feature is also on DA? Like cPanel?

Name Servers wouldn't be a problem since we would start with cheap boxes and then move as we requiere, DNS would be changed too (IP's)

Thanks :)
 
quackweb said:
Sure is, you can backup the entire system or just select areas from the control panel now.
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Thanks :)

I hope that debian is supported that's what I would like to run.

Hopefully Directadmin support can answer if it's stable or not, I believe I was the one that requested it some time ago :D
 
I'm running Debian 3.0 right now with DirectAdmin, and so far there is only limited problems with DirectAdmin itself.
Installation on the other hand is a different story. It is still in a very beta stage I would say, it took me several hours to get everything worked out and running properly.
 
the backup / restore to server to server is still really a huge pain in the ass.

lots of bad things happend when i did it.

1) ftp passwords were set to something else
2) some accounts passwords were not set properly or to an old username, probably from changing the password via ssh.
3) new ips is kinda a pain, specially if you have resellers with their own ips.

either way it is nowhere close to cpanel's backup/restore that works almost flawlessly.

please note da does not backup /home/username just the domains folder so if you are storing things outside the domains folder they will not be included in backup
 
I don't know which backup you're writing about.

If you're writing about the admin backup (sysbk) note that you can add and delete any folders or files you want.

Jeff
 
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