Backup & Restore
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1. Backup amp Restore USER MANUAL CHAPTER 1 Backup amp Restore The Backup amp Restore addon for WHMCS allows you to backup restore and transfer cPanel hosting accounts from within the comfort of your WHMCS administration panel SECTION 1 Installation The addon comes in the form of a zip file To install the addon there are 2 ways of doing so 1 First method FTP the zip file to your server in the WHMCS modules addons directory and unzip it there This can usually be done using modern FTP tools such as Filezilla or even us ing the cPanel File Manager if you have a cPanel hosting ac count 2 Second method Unzip the files locally on your PC and then transfer the files in binary mode using FTP Make sure the transfer mode is set to binary or you will have messages say ing the files are corrupt when you try to activate or use the ad don After installation you should have a directory structure as fol lows modules addons bar SECTION 2 Configuration Go to Setup gt Addon Modules and activate the addon Backup amp Restore 1 1 4 Zingiri Activate Deactivate You will then see additional settings appearing further down the page Backup amp Restore The minimum required configuration is the following e License key fill in the license key you obtained this when or dering the addon e Access control to tick Full Administrator The rest of the configuration2. depends on whether you want to use the addon to transfer accounts from one cPanel server to another or simply for backup and restore on the same server Restore only If you only want to restore accounts the only additional set tings to be filled is e Client restore tick the box to allow clients to restore their ac counts from their WHMCS control panel Backup and restore on the same server In the field Email enter the email address of a WHMCS sup port department This is very important as the way the addon operates is that it will instruct cPanel to backup the account and upon completion to send a completion email to the speci fied email address This in turn is then picked up by WHMCS to trigger the rest of the process Transfer accounts If you want to be able to transfer accounts from one server to another you need to set up the same FTP user with the same password on every destination server This user needs to have access to the directory backup cpbackup daily in read and write mode A simple way to do this is to create a new cPanel user and in this user s home directory create a link to the backup cpbackup daily directory Once you have done this you need to fill in the fields User name and Password with the the id and password of this user In the field Protocol you enter the type of ftp e g nor mal or passive In the field Port the FTP port normally 21 and in the field D
3. irectory the FTP directory that links to backup cpbackup daily So if for example you have created a link in the user s home directory as In s backup backup cpbackup daily then you enter backup in this field don t forget the trailing slash
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