How Can I Restore Old Settings to My cPanel Server?

Serena
08 Sep, 2021

cPanel

Introduction

In this Knowledge base, you will find the cpconf tool is used to backup and restore the settings if one wishes to migrate to a new server or to copy the configuration files.

Let’s see the Procedure:
The cpconf tool is used to backup and restore the configuration files.

The script is located at

/usr/local/cpanel/bin/cpconftool

To restore a backup, you would use something like this, replacing /home/whm-config-backup-all-1.1-1411229033.tar.gz with the path to your backup, and --modules= With the modules, you need to restore:

/usr/local/cpanel/bin/cpconftool --restore=/home/whm-config-backup-all-1.1-1411229033.tar.gz --modules=cpanel::smtp::exim

You can use –list-modules to get a list of the available modules on your server.

cpanel::easy::apache

cpanel::smtp::exim

cpanel::system::autossloptions

cpanel::system::backups

cpanel::system::greylist

cpanel::system::hulk

cpanel::system::modsecurity

cpanel::system::mysql

cpanel::system::whmconf

cpanel::ui::themes

For more details on the cpconf tool, please review the documentation at cpconftool script.