How-to: cPanel to DA migration

yamacparadox · Feb 7, 2020

Hi,

When I transfer from Cpanel to directadmin, the customer's outlook downloads all the emails in the inbox again. Why is this happening. There was no problem in transferring from cpanel to cpanel.

Thanks

smtalk · Feb 7, 2020

yamacparadox said:
Hi,

When I transfer from Cpanel to directadmin, the customer's outlook downloads all the emails in the inbox again. Why is this happening. There was no problem in transferring from cpanel to cpanel.

Thanks

I think he has POP3 configured with "leave copy on the server" option. And I think it should affect any migration, including cPanel->cPanel:

Copy / Migrate Account Duplicate Emails

Hello, I have transferred a bunch of accounts to a new server via the Copy Multiple Accounts feature with Express Transfer checked off. All of the emails for those accounts (well 3 accounts for sure) that were "left on the server for a month" by my email program (Outlook 2003 Win 7 & OSX...

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Receiving Duplicate Emails

Hello my email address [email protected] A copy of all incoming mail automatically come to my email address [email protected] some i have received same mail 9-10 time. How could i setup same mail will received only once. Regards Mahfuz

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neilspellings · Feb 11, 2020

I searched the documentation but couldn't find a way of exporting packages from cPanel to DA. My cPanel packages are all at root level, so no reseller packages exist. I tried a test account transfer which worked OK, but it didn't bring across the packages.

MMarko · Feb 20, 2020

Great utility, thumbs up for including it into DA custombuild.

smtalk · Mar 2, 2020

neilspellings said:
I searched the documentation but couldn't find a way of exporting packages from cPanel to DA. My cPanel packages are all at root level, so no reseller packages exist. I tried a test account transfer which worked OK, but it didn't bring across the packages.

Please use copy_root_packages.sh mentioned in https://forum.directadmin.com/threads/how-to-cpanel-to-da-migration.58059/#post-296438 for it.

WebHostPro · Mar 28, 2020

I'm transferring one big site at 130GB. Does the DirectAdmin server need to have double this space to restore the backup? Currently the DirectAdmin server has 200 gigs.

smtalk · Mar 29, 2020

WebHostPro said:
I'm transferring one big site at 130GB. Does the DirectAdmin server need to have double this space to restore the backup? Currently the DirectAdmin server has 200 gigs.

I'd suggest not including public_html to cpmove backup, and then rsyncing it manually. Alternatively, you may convert the backup to DirectAdmin format on a server having more space, and transfer just DirectAdmin-format backup to this server for the restoration.

WebHostPro · Mar 29, 2020

Great, thanks! I was thinking of separating the back up file as well.

Amit · Apr 9, 2020

Is cpanel backup restore possible from user level of directadmin?

smtalk · Apr 9, 2020

Amit said:
Is cpanel backup restore possible from user level of directadmin?

It needs to be done on admin level.

anay · Apr 23, 2020

I followed guide, I am facing 3 major problem :
1. Disk usage is not update ie. I can see sites moved and files are there but every account is showing 0 disk usage. Even after hours , its same.
2. It appears I can't login to any email Its showing error in maillog as :

Code:

dovecot[18124]: auth: Error: plain([email protected],127.0.0.1,<KFsNfu6jPrx/AAAB>): user not found from any userdbs

I tried rebuild exim then dovecot as per discussion here:
https://forum.directadmin.com/threads/dovecot-exim-not-working.58002/

But still not working.

3. Since I am not able to login mail, I am not sure if mails were also restored, although I can see all user mail accounts are restored in DA admin, none of the login is working. It is also 12KB usage for all email accounts.

smtalk · Apr 28, 2020

anay said:
1. Disk usage is not update ie. I can see sites moved and files are there but every account is showing

0 disk usage. Even after hours , its same.

Tally is ran every night. Real-time quotas can be enabled too.

anay said:
2. It appears I can't login to any email Its showing error in maillog as :

Please check if /etc/virtual/somedomain.net/passwd has test8 inside.

anay · Apr 29, 2020

smtalk said:
Tally is ran every night. Real-time quotas can be enabled too.

Ya, I noticed it but somehow I was not able to find reference for it , all I found was that DA does quotas in 15 min or so, hence after waiting for long enough, I came here. Most of the searches were taking me here : https://www.directadmin.com/features.php?id=578 which was ofcourse not relevant.

smtalk said:
Please check if /etc/virtual/somedomain.net/passwd has test8 inside.

I had tried so many things at that but I suppose following fixed it.

Code:

./build todovecot

eushells · May 9, 2020

Hello,

I have error to restore cPanel to directadmin:

Code:

Unable to find cPanel user configuration in /home/admin/user_backups/2020-05-09/turbosufla_cpanel_to_convert/cp/turbosufla

Error converting file: /home/admin/user_backups/2020-05-09/cpmove-turbosufla.tar.gz: Converting turbosufla (/home/admin/user_backups/2020-05-09/cpmove-turbosufla.tar.gz)...
Found previous /home/admin/user_backups/2020-05-09/turbosufla_cpanel_to_convert. Removing...
Found previous /home/admin/user_backups/2020-05-09/turbosufla. Removing...

File '/home/admin/user_backups/2020-05-09/cpmove-turbosufla.tar.gz' has not been restored

smtalk · May 9, 2020

eushells said:

Hello,

I have error to restore cPanel to directadmin:

Code:

Unable to find cPanel user configuration in /home/admin/user_backups/2020-05-09/turbosufla_cpanel_to_convert/cp/turbosufla

Error converting file: /home/admin/user_backups/2020-05-09/cpmove-turbosufla.tar.gz: Converting turbosufla (/home/admin/user_backups/2020-05-09/cpmove-turbosufla.tar.gz)...
Found previous /home/admin/user_backups/2020-05-09/turbosufla_cpanel_to_convert. Removing...
Found previous /home/admin/user_backups/2020-05-09/turbosufla. Removing...

File '/home/admin/user_backups/2020-05-09/cpmove-turbosufla.tar.gz' has not been restored

Are you sure the backup was taken from cPanel machine, not jetbackups?

eushells · May 9, 2020

smtalk said:
Are you sure the backup was taken from cPanel machine, not jetbackups?

I did a full backup of cPanel and renamed the archive as it appears in error.

smtalk · May 9, 2020

eushells said:
I did a full backup of cPanel and renamed the archive as it appears in error.

I'd suggest creating a ticket at tickets.directadmin.com (or PM me personally if you have no support for your license, I'll assist you free of charge).

h5zol · May 11, 2020

Hello,
I'm really new to DA.
Today I tried to transfer one account from cPanel to DA and get the following error:
(I'm used this tutorial: https://forum.directadmin.com/threads/how-to-cpanel-to-da-migration.58059/post-296439)

Code:

pigz: skipping: /home/admin/converted_user_backup/cpmove-munkaved.tar.gz: corrupted -- incomplete deflate data
pigz: abort: internal threads error
tar: Unexpected EOF in archive
tar: Unexpected EOF in archive
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
Failed to extract /home/admin/converted_user_backup/cpmove-munkaved.tar.gz to /home/admin/converted_user_backup/munkaved_cpanel_to_convert

Error converting file: /home/admin/converted_user_backup/cpmove-munkaved.tar.gz: Converting munkaved (/home/admin/converted_user_backup/cpmove-munkaved.tar.gz)...
Found previous /home/admin/converted_user_backup/munkaved. Removing...

File '/home/admin/converted_user_backup/cpmove-munkaved.tar.gz' has not been restored

what did I wrong?

thank you!

Zhenyapan · May 11, 2020

h5zol said:

Hello,
I'm really new to DA.
Today I tried to transfer one account from cPanel to DA and get the following error:
(I'm used this tutorial: https://forum.directadmin.com/threads/how-to-cpanel-to-da-migration.58059/post-296439)

Code:

pigz: skipping: /home/admin/converted_user_backup/cpmove-munkaved.tar.gz: corrupted -- incomplete deflate data
pigz: abort: internal threads error
tar: Unexpected EOF in archive
tar: Unexpected EOF in archive
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
Failed to extract /home/admin/converted_user_backup/cpmove-munkaved.tar.gz to /home/admin/converted_user_backup/munkaved_cpanel_to_convert

Error converting file: /home/admin/converted_user_backup/cpmove-munkaved.tar.gz: Converting munkaved (/home/admin/converted_user_backup/cpmove-munkaved.tar.gz)...
Found previous /home/admin/converted_user_backup/munkaved. Removing...

File '/home/admin/converted_user_backup/cpmove-munkaved.tar.gz' has not been restored

what did I wrong?

thank you!

looks like archive broken, maybe you start copying before account was totally backuped, maybe there was not enough space where you create it, maybe creation was broken (killed process). Try to create new Cpanel backup, copy to directadmin server and restore again

samK · Jun 16, 2020

Step 1: Download the conversion tool. Download the cpanel-to-DirectAdmin account conversion tool. ...
Step 2: Create paths. ...
Step 3: Copy the files to “import” directory. ...
Step 4: Match the configuration. ...
Step 5: Execute the module. ...
Step 6: Move the converted backups. ...
Step 7: Restore the backups.

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