How to take backup of a user account if cron is not working on vps

[optimus]

i have a vps on which cron is not working
i tried everthing but fail
now i have to move the account to my another vps
so is their any way to do this without the cron

i was thinking to make a tar file of public_html and then extract the file to another location but by doing this all password is getting changed because i don't know the old password
so it is just a nonsense thing until it come to know that what is the old password
so is their any way to get the password of any account in plaintext by admin level or root level so that i can make a new account on another location with the same passwords and then extract the rar of public_html

 

[SeLLeRoNe]

As for the other thread.

DirectAdmin at admin lever have a function called "Admin Backup" that, if you put Now insterad of a programmed time, will start a backup for each selected user with db email ftp and wahtever, keeping also the password.

With same function, on the new vps you can import those backups.

Regards

 

[optimus]

ya i know that
but as i already said that cron is not working on my current vps so how can i get a backup file to restore on new vps??

 

[SeLLeRoNe]

You should set the backup for "now" on directadmin control panel and then run manually the task using:

/usr/local/directadmin/dataskq d800

Regards