How-to: cPanel to DA migration

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'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.
 
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.
 
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.

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.
 
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.

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
 
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
 
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?
 
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!
 
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
 
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.
 
Just finished another round of cPanel to DA migrations for email only servers and thought my feedback might be of value both to leadership and other users, as the cPanel to DA conversion script has been updated since my last bit of feedback.

Two significant things failed:
- Subdomains that were added as Addon Domains in cPanel ended up missing (I intentionally instruct my users to do this and cPanel does allow it, long story but legit use case)
- Catchall emails did not migrate

Email filters not migrating remains relevant to note but not something to hope for a resolution, that's not a reasonable thing to migrate.
 
Just finished another round of cPanel to DA migrations for email only servers and thought my feedback might be of value both to leadership and other users, as the cPanel to DA conversion script has been updated since my last bit of feedback.

Two significant things failed:
- Subdomains that were added as Addon Domains in cPanel ended up missing (I intentionally instruct my users to do this and cPanel does allow it, long story but legit use case)
- Catchall emails did not migrate

Email filters not migrating remains relevant to note but not something to hope for a resolution, that's not a reasonable thing to migrate.
What was the version of the conversion script? May you provide 1 cpmove file for a test?
 
We did a recent single user transfer from a cPanel server to a DirectAdmin server and it looks like the mailclient did not get new mail although the mail was available in webmail. After re-adding the mail account the mail was synchronised correctly again. Is this expected?

DirectAdmin version 1.61.4
cpanel_to_da version 0.0.47
 
We did a recent single user transfer from a cPanel server to a DirectAdmin server and it looks like the mailclient did not get new mail although the mail was available in webmail. After re-adding the mail account the mail was synchronised correctly again. Is this expected?

DirectAdmin version 1.61.4
cpanel_to_da version 0.0.47
Do you mean email account was not created/migrated?
 
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