Seperate one user account to several more accounts

[hires]

Hello everyone,

I have a problem with one big user account; due to the size of this account the backups don't run properly. One day the backup is created succesfully; the other day it is not.

What i want to do is to tranfer some of the sites to a new (or several new) user accounts, but I'm not sure how to do that. Is that even possible? I searched for articles and some of them describe a process of: backing up the complete account, create a new account, delete the domains you want to transfer to the new account and then restore the backup to the new account. The articles says that when you do it like this, only the domains (and sites) you deleted from the original account will be created and all the other domains (and sites) will fail...

I was wandering... this all sounds not very logical to me.. Is this the only way to seperate one big user account to several others?

Thanks in advance!

 

[nobaloney]

If yu're the systems administrator it's really easy:

There's a script you can run at /usr/local/directadmin/scripts/move_domain.sh which will do it for you. I don't believe it renames the necessary mysql database(s) if any, but there's also a script at /usr/local/directadmin/scripts/change_database_username.php which will do that.

You'll need to create the user first.

Be sure to backup everything first.

Jeff