domain transfer issues

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karlp

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I know there have been many posts about moving accounts from one server to another, switch OS's, from cpanel to DA, but after reviewing them i still can't seem to solve the problem i'm having.

All i wanna do is move 5 domains from one user to another. I found a step by step process written by someone (i forgot where i found it), so these are the steps that i followed:
1) Go to Reseller Panel -> Manage User Backups and make a backup of the user who owns the domain you want to transfer.

2) Login as that user, go to User Panel -> Domain Administration -> Change domain name, and change the name of that domain to something different (ie: from domain.com to domain2.com). This is done so that you can restore the domain on the other account without DA complaining that it already exists.

3) Go back into the Reseller Panel, and create the a new user. Set the domain to the actual name of the domain you want transferred. If the user already exists, then just create the domain through the User Panel -> Domain Administration menu.

4) Take the backup from step 1, and rename is from olduser.tar.gz to newuser.tar.gz, where newuser is the name you are transferring TO and olduser is the name you are transferring FROM.

5) From Reseller Panel -> Manage User Backups, select newuser.tar.gz and restore it into the newuser account. This should set all the data from the domain into the new user.

6) Once you've verified that everything is correct and as it should be, log back into the olduser account and delete domain2.com.
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Everything seems to go smoothly except for the restoring, where i get this a system message after trying:
Unable to extract the directory 'backup' from the file /home/admin/user_backups/baymore.tar.gz

Unable to read the backed up user.usage file
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I'm not sure where to go from here. I figured i could try to manually move the files, but there are over 10 mysql databases that are associated with these domains. Would these still work if i just moved over all the public_html files from the other domains to the new account?
 
http://help.directadmin.com/item.php?id=58

I will be releasing my plugin for this tonight hopefully which will move domains between users, however it only transfers domains since there's no way of knowing what mysql databases belong to it since those are done on a per-user basis.

In regards to mysql I think there is a DirectAdmin provided shell script that might do this. Check the /usr/local/directadmin/scripts directory.
 
Restoring the domain still doesn't work for me. I'm going to start trying to manually recreating the domains, but i would like to know that if i have to do this in the future there will be a more innovative solution.

Has that plugin been released yet? Where can i find it?
 
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