How to move admin accounts of 2 servers to 1?

[Richard G]

Server A: admin, reseller and some users
Server B: admin and some reseller accounts

Server C: admin, reseller and several user accounts.

All accounts of server A and server B should be moved to server C for a short while.

Normally I would use the admin backup/transfer option for this.
http://help.directadmin.com/item.php?id=57

However, this won't work now, because if I would do this, the admin account of server C would be overwritten. And that may not happen.

How can I move both the admin accounts to server C? I don't mind if they get another name on the new server, or if they become reseller. But I must be sure that really none of any of the other existing accounts on server C can be overwritten by a backup and restore of one of the other servers (A and B) accounts.

What is the best way to do this?

 

[zEitEr]

I guess you should re-name all backups on server A:

admin.tar.gz => admina.tar.gz (or how is it called)

on server B:

admin.tar.gz => adminb.tar.gz (or how is it called)

and move them to server C. The same should be done with other accounts if you want to keep them under their old resellers.

Server A: user.admin.bob.tar.gz => user.admina.bob.tar.gz
Server B: user.admin.kat.tar.gz => user.adminb.kat.tar.gz

 

[Richard G]

Is it that easy? I didn't think of that.
Then next to that I only have to check that no accountname of the users is the same as on the other servers.

Great, thanks Zeiter!!

 

[SeLLeRoNe]

Just in case, same procedure for users

Regards

 

[zEitEr]

With users (if any renamed) you should later update MySQL credentials in PHP scripts.

 

[Richard G]

Yep. That's why I rather check the user accountnames, saves me a lot of work.
Thanks!