Archive for December, 2009

Backup/Restore a cPanel Account

Previous Post: WHM Scripts

Now we’re going to start looking into some of those SSH commands.  Today we’ll be going over the commands pkgacct and restorepkg.

Backing up and restoring cPanel account’s is, in my opinion, faster by using the command line as you don’t have to wait for a sometimes sluggish web interface to load.

Let’s get started then, shall we? More >

WHM Scripts

Did you know that if you have cPanel/WHM on your server, you also have a bunch of serverside commands that you can use?  These are good for advanced users, or the people who prefer to manage their servers in a hurry via the command line rather than waiting for a web interface to load.

Nearly everything that you can do in the WHM backend can be performed via command line.  These scripts are located in your server’s /scripts/ directory.  Only use scripts that have been verified by cPanel, or that you know yourself are safe as an unsafe script may damage your server.

Long list of scripts after the break… More >