How to Backup and Restore Individual cPanel Account via SSH

• 20 September 2021
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Backing up your hosting account is very necessary for your business to survive on web. whether or not it’s small or large business, you have to backup all of your data frequently a minimum of once every week. cPanel provides some nice prepared ready made scripts which can assist you to build your tasks easier. Commands like pkgacct is essentially used for backing up cpanel web hosting accounts and restorepkg for restoring cpanel accounts via the SSH or command line interface.

How to create backup of Individual cPanel Account via SSH?

Step 1: Log-in to the SSH as Root user.

Step 2: Enter the following command string on the command line interface:

/scripts/pkgacct username

[Note: The account backup will be created in the current directory you are in.]

How to Restore the Individual cPanel Account via SSH?

Step 1: To restore the cPanel account backups, enter the following command

/scripts/restorepkg username

 

Note: In order to restore the data, you need to be in the directory where the backup file is stored.

This is the simplest way to backup and restore individual cPanel web hosting accounts via command line interface.