We seem to be doing a lot of this lately with clients upgrading to larger hard drives, etc.
I'm curious as to what works best for most folks that do have physical access to their servers when copying drives in servers, like when upgrading to larger hard drives or replacing a hard drive.
I know there are "hardware" drive copiers, but what about software methods?
Especially when upgrading both hard drives in a dual hard drive server.
I am trying to find an application that can listen on a given UDP port, say "6271" and forward all traffic (UDP) sent to that port to another IP (not on the same subnet).
I should not call this forwarding, but instead, cloning (because forwarding usually is only on the same subnet or vlan). The packets should not be modified, (thus IP information in packet ect.)
Is this possible? I have tried some applications such as,
samplicator
When copy a database, plesk would copy it but hung at creating the db user, therefore, the database cloning message keeps on showing
Cloning the database xxxxxx to the database xxxxx. You will be notified of the progress by email (xxxxxxx).
*I checked if the database was copied, it showed it did but the user was not created for that newly copied one.
1- i did Os Reload with new Hard drive for "home"
2- data "backups" drive lost
3- replaced the old home drive as "/old drive"
4- " /old drive " is now the secondry drive in my server and it has the all sites usres and evry thing
5- what i need , to trasfer, copy this sites from " /old drive " to "home"
but data center said
The /olddrive/home directory contains the contents that were previously in the /home directory. You can copy files from this directory to any other directory on your server.
The command to copy files in the UNIX environment is the "cp" command.
The user directories in /olddrive/home directory contain the web page files for the users. However, simply copying the contents over will not recreate the users or domain entries in DNS/httpd. If you wish these back you will need to recreate them manually or restore them from backups.
Primary drive (centos/cpanel) is corrupt
The server is displaying these errors when I tried to do an FSCK:
Bad inode IO
ext3-fs error (device(8,3)) IO Failure
I am having a new primary installed and old primary set as 2nd drive. I need to recover the cpanel domain accounts from this 2nd drive after I mount it with the method below:
mkdir /backup
mount /dev/sdb1 /backup
However, how do I actually recover these accounts in an automated process via whm? I've done this before with the same matter (corrupt primary drive, mount as 2nd, etc) but cannot exactly remember the proper steps.
I just purchased a brand new 10K 150GB drive. How can I take an exact copy of my current drive and transfer everything over to the new drive? I think I need to create a snapshop, or mirror it somehow.
What software will do this? I was told trueimage, but its very pricy, is there anything else?
I have a dedicated box and I started getting Input/output errors today.
I tried:
# fsck
fsck 1.40-WIP (14-Nov-2006)
e2fsck 1.40-WIP (14-Nov-2006)
/dev/hda2: recovering journal
fsck.ext3: unable to set superblock flags on /dev/hda2
then I tried:
# fsck -a -t ext3 /dev/hda2
fsck 1.40-WIP (14-Nov-2006)
/dev/hda2: recovering journal
fsck.ext3: unable to set superblock flags on /dev/hda2
My data is backed up, so was going to ask for a reimage, but is this an indication of bad hardware? Should I ask for a replacement drive? Is there anything else I should try on my own before going to the host?
There is a directory with many files and subdirectories. I want to copy ALL the filesnames beginning with post-1111 to another folder. What is the command to do this?
View 5 Replies View RelatedI am having a hosting account with old host which is limited to 10 GB, and there i am having a mysql Database which is of 2 GB, i want to move it to new host via SSH ... as that Database can not be downloaded via phpmyadmin due to its size.
So i want to "tar" the mysql directory and ssh/scp to new host!...
I am applying this command...
tar -cvf r.tar /var/lib/mysql/in_supp | ssh user@newhost.com
But i am getting errors,
Please give me a command which can move my entire Database dump to new server, without creating any copy at old server "as i do not have any space there"
mysql: Copying to tmp table, what causes that?
My server is majorly overloading and mysql is atop the cpu, and when I do a processlist there are about 20 copying to tmp table processes.
is there a way to copy mysql from an existing db, and then renaming it to another name?
I would like to copy my current db from a live forum site, and because I got a test forum but I need that test forum to use my current live db...but i want it to use a copy of the live db. The db has to be a different name for the test site. Sorry hard for me to explain.
Is there an easy way to do that? I would do it via cpanel backup and upload but the db is 2gb's gzip....
I can do it via ssh or whm as well.
I have a dedicated managed server (with liquidweb) with Cpanel and WHM.
I want to duplicate a database that I have in one account over to another account on the same server.
Usually the way I would do that is to use the Cpanel Backup tool, download the database from the first account and then restore it on the second account.
This time however the database is fairly large and my connection is not very fast, so downloading, and then uploading the database backup would take ages.
to execute the following command into a Solaris 5.11 system.
cp -al ......
The problem is that either -a or -l works on Solaris.
Man pages are not installed and all I can get is:
Usage: cp [-f] [-i] [-p] [-@] f1 f2
cp [-f] [-i] [-p] [-@] f1 ... fn d1
cp -r|-R [-H|-L|-P] [-f] [-i] [-p] [-@] d1 ... dn-1 dn
What I want to achieve is link files instead of copying and also keep permissions on files.
Did anyone ever had an issue, when you click fetch accounts list and it displays 0 packages and 0 accounts? Even if there are hundreds of accounts in server.
cPanel 11.18.5-R23897
Could this be cPanel bug?
I am trying to copy one account from another server through the option "Copy an account from another server with password" in WHM but after filling server ip, username and password it starts trasnfering and showing me dosts like below :-
............... ............... ............... ............... ............... ............... ............... ............... ............... ............... ............... ............... ............... ............... ............... ............... ............... ............... ............... ............... ............... ............... ............... ............... ............... ............... ............... ............... ............... ............... ............... ...............
After few lines its just stoped working,
I want to copy a 5GB mysql database, but don't want to dump and then import it again since it will take long time.
Alternatively, I am thinking of copying the directory of the database using the CP command.
First, I will close the forums from the control panel.. then I will use this command:
cp -rp /var/lib/mysql/mydatabase /var/lib/mysql/mydatabase_copy
a way to preserve folder/file permissions in a windows environment. We are copying files from one drive to another on one of our servers. It's crucial to preserve the permissions - but i've done some research and can't find any way to get this done...
Anybody familiar with any methods on how to approach this? We're running windows 2003 server.
I've been searching for the best way to copy a file, say .htaccess, to multiple users dir, tried "cp -f .htaccess /home/*/public_html" but received an error "omitting dir /home...."
View 3 Replies View RelatedI am trying to write a PHP script for copying the content of one subdomain to another, like with the button Website Copying but automatically.
I can't seem to find the API model for that, but I am sure it must be possible to do.
I get error while copying accounts from Plesk to Cpanel and hence the emails are not copied though the data is copied. The error goes like this
pXa Copying Mail files....ERROR 1064 at line 1: You have an error in your SQL syntax near 'SELECT cl_id FROM domains WHERE id = 1018 )' at line 1
I am running Plesk 8.01 and the latest stable release of Cpanel. Is it because of the Plesk version I have? If yes, then what should be the Plesk version?
I recently bought a VPS and set up everything for it manually (apache, php, mysql). I had an old host which I got my files and MySQL database from. I have successfully copied them all over and imported the .sql file. I have also checked my config options and updated them to the new settings.
However, when I go to my site, I just get a blank, white screen. The site is fine because a test file that doesn't use my phpBB installation from before renders properly as well as the index.php file from the ./install/ directory of phpBB. If it was a connection problem with MySQL, I would assume that it would print some sort of error stating that it can't connect.
Here are some steps that I've tried so far (I would use a list here but I supposedly need five posts):
* chmod 777 on my entire /var/www/html/ directory.
* chown /var/www/html/ to the apache user, which is the one running the apache webserver.
* Checking error logs and not finding anything that seemed catastrophic (i.e. just notifications about a favicon being missing).
* Editing the .htaccess file to be empty.
At this point, I don't know what to do. I am willing to reinstall phpBB properly, although I would really rather not, and I imagine that there's some way to salvage my previous installation. If you're wondering why I'm posting here instead of the phpBB forums, it's because I have a hunch that it's more likely related to my installing MySQL, Apache and PHP.
My site is apollorp (dot) org (I would link here but I need five posts). As a test, try going to apollorp (dot) org (slash) test (dot) php, which should work.
A customer would like to move his hosting from another host to me. But the other host does not want to cooperate and give me access to the panel or files. Threw the customer I did get the ftp information, and within the config file I have the database username and password.
How is it possible to copy the database, without having the hosting panel access?
I want to be able to copy 1000's of files from one subscription to another or rather from one domain to another on the server without having to FTP them each time. Is there a way which this can be done directly in Plesk and avoid the need to ftp the same 1000's of files into each subscription ? FTPing on my connection is really slow and takes 2-3 for each subscription / domain, whereas if I could just FTP to the server once and then copy&paste the files between subscriptions then this would save me a huge amount of time...
View 2 Replies View RelatedI'm having a problem when copying folders into another folder using the same name.e.g. there's a folder called css in httpdocs/backup/css and also httpdocs/css. However, I'm trying to restore the backup and actually copy the /css dir from httpdocs/backup to httpdocs. Plesk should overwrite the existing target css dir (and its content/files) in httpdocs/css. However, Plesk creates a new css dir inside httpdocs/css so I have the "original" httpdocs/css dir content intact and also the css dir (from httpdocs/backup/css) copied into httpdocs/css so the full path is httpdocs/css/css
I'm highlighting the httpdocs (not /css dir) in the File manager - Copy Files window. I've tried that on a few installs and experiencing issue on each of them. Please see the attached screenshots.
Step 1. Select (check) the css dir and click copy (or move, result is the same)
Step 2. Mark the httpdocs dir (it doesn't matter if you click the Replace existing files checkbox)
Step 3. Final result, css dir from httpdocs/backup copied into httpdocs/css/
I've compared the dir content several times and definitely the css dir from httpdocs/backup is copied to httpdocs/css so the full path would be: http docs/css/css and the original "old" files from css will remain there.
I've been happily copy databases between subscriptions in Plesk 11.5xx for years but having updated to 12 the feature no longer works.
In the copy database screen when the 'local MySQL server' option is selected in the drop down the 'Copy to existing database' radio button is disabled.
My service provider tells me this is a feature change.
I have a Win2K3 server which has 2 hard drives. I was considering backup options and I thought that I might try mirroring Drive A ==> Drive B. I would think that, then, if Drive A has a hardware failure, I could simply switch Drive B into the Primary slot (A) and the server would continue to hum along as nothing has happened. This would reduce the downtime, hopefully.
I have 3 questions.
1. Is this idea practical (will it work)?
2. What is a good software program to use fto handle the mirroring?
3. Any considerations, warnings, technical advice in regard to this method?
I've noticed I've been getting a lot of "Copying to tmp table" and from a google search this is bad. Any idea on how I can fix this in my shared hosting environment?
Running MySQL 5.0.81 on CPanel.