Web Hosting Talk : Web Hosting Main Forums : Reseller Hosting : Transferring from H-Sphere to H-Sphere/cPanel

[minipro]

I have a Windows reseller account with H-Sphere. I now want to transfer my sites.

Some sites are to be transferred to another H-Sphere account, other to a cPanel account. Can any one please tell me how to do it? I cannot see any backup option in H-Sphere

Additionally, some of the sites have more than 70-80 email addresses. It would be a nightmarish experience for me and also the clients if I have to sit and recreate those email addresses.

Please help. Thanks.

[(Stephen)]

minipro,

Some providers provide a tool call Hsphere Backups, it cna assist in backup of your sites contents and databases. If you do not have this, you can still do site backups with the Webshell(in ftp users drop down, File Manager link). From there select all folders and use the "Archive" button at the bottom of webshell. This will get site content, you will have to use phpmyadmin or another tool to generate a SQL dump.

As for email, it will be all manual from what I know, especially if you just have a reseller account. Even if you don't, cpanel and hsphere use different mailservers, and a migration would be hard.

[gate2vn]

you can backup by creating compress file in File Manager. However, I have once helped customer to transfer his data to our server, and even I compress the whole folder, it still missed some files inside. Not sure why Had to do it again. You should double check after doing the transfer to make sure you get all files

[RossH]

Dear god why would you want to go from h-sphere to cpanel *shudder*

[minipro]

lol Actually its to consilidate sites hosted at various places and to also reduce costs

[cartika-andrew]

you can backup by creating compress file in File Manager. However, I have once helped customer to transfer his data to our server, and even I compress the whole folder, it still missed some files inside. Not sure why Had to do it again. You should double check after doing the transfer to make sure you get all files

Almost sounds as if some of the files had httpd:httpd permissions rather then user:user permissions - but, if it worked the second time, this theory doesnt hold

Strange issue - I will need to keep my eyes open for this one....