How to manually restore a whole cPanel server from cPremote backup

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How to manually restore a whole cPanel server from cPremote backup

If one of your cPanel server is dead and you need to restore the whole cPanel accounts. Just do the following

  1. Install new OS and cPanel in your server and secure it. Make sure you are using same mysql and php versions

  2. Login to your backup server and copy the whole backup folder let us say “daily”( which contains daily backup of all your accounts) , to your new server’s /backup/cpbackup folder

  3. Now login to WHM->Backup->Configure Backup and make the following changes

Backup Status = Restore Only

Incremental Backup = Enabled

Backup Accounts = Enabled

Backup SQL Databases = Per Account Only

Backup Type = Standard

Backup Destination = /backup

  1. Now restore backups from WHM->Backup->Restore Backups