How to move web sites/domains from one to other different/new account/administrator.?

[dorucrisan]

Please I need some help. We are running almost 100 web sites on a DA server. There are two accounts/administrators, almost equal (like 50+50). Problem is that when making account backup, resulted file is around 500G. When restoring, it stalls, cannot finish restore in good condition. The problem is not with DA I think, as I had same problem before with CPanel. I tested with smaller backups, like 100-200G and everything goes fine. What I plan to do is create several new accounts, and move the web sites evenly distributed not between 2 accounts but between 5 or more, so the backups would be smaller and restore process can succeed. Please how can I move some web site from one account/administrator to other and keep everything running?
Thank you so much for any input.

 

[Richard G]

Oke there are more options you can use. You don't have to choose to do all backups from an admin. You can also choose to for example backup half, and after that backup the other half.

However, if you want to distribute them amongst multiple admins, that is very easy to do.

First create the new admin accounts.
Then login as one of the admins with users you want to divide, then use the option "move users between resellers". With this tool you can also move users to another admin, because admins are also resellers at the same time.
After that you do the same from your 2nd admin account with a lot of users, and move the portion you want to move.

 

[dorucrisan]

Thank you so much Richard, I was thinking about that way but actually never used it, don't know how it works. If it makes the job done then it's fine. Many thanks again.

 

[Richard G]

You're welcome.
It makes the job done. In fact it's a GUI solution for a script which already existed earlier.
You can find the old way here:

https://help.directadmin.com/item.php?id=93

There you can see that the script in fact just changes user.conf files by adjusting the creator and then runs an update command afterwards.
Via the DA interface (since already years ago) all of this is going automatically.

Have fun!