About Site export

A Site export backs up the sites hosted on the server. You can perform a selective (selected sites) or comprehensive (all sites) export.

When you export a site, the following archive is created.

• A compressed file (.gz) for each site

The naming convention of an exported file is as follows:

<server_hostname>_<site_name>_<export_type>_<YYYY>_<Month>_<date>_<Hours>_Minutes>.tar.gz

Where:
<server_hostname> is the name of the control panel server
<site_name> is the name of the site being exported
<export_type> indicates the type of export (site)
<YYYY>_<Month>_<date>_<Hours>_Minutes> is the time-stamp when the data is exported.

For example, exporting a site mysite.com on the control panel server example.com on Jan 06, 2003 at 11.30 creates the following file:

example.com_mysite.com_site_2003_January_06_11_30.tar.gz

What is exported

The following information is exported as metadata in the form of an XML file. The metadata comprises information about the exported data.

• DNS information

  DNS information comprises the DNS settings configured for the zone along with zone information for the site.

• Service configuration information

  Service configuration information includes the service settings configured for a site when you create or modify a site.

• File ownership and their permissions

• Site information

  Site information comprises the site name, IP address, site ownership information, services information, site databases and tables.

• Site user account information

  Site user account information includes the following.

  • User configuration information

  • Files in the site owned by the user

What is not exported

The following files and directories are not exported.

• Note: All the path names are relative to the site's base directory, /home/virtual/<site-id>/fst/

• Analog configuration information

• /var/usage/web/analog.cfg

• /var/usage/ftp/analog.cfg

• Anonymous FTP account information

• /var/ftp/etc/group

• /var/ftp/etc/ld.so.cache

• /var/ftp/etc/passwd

• Skins and related customizations

• /usr/lib/opcenter/skins/

• IMAP authentication information

• /etc/imap.pamlist

• Majordomo

• /usr/lib/majordomo/wrapper

• Security certificate information

• /etc/httpd/conf/ssl.crt/*.*

• /etc/httpd/conf/ssl.key/*.*

• /etc/httpd/conf/ssl.csr/*.*

• proFTPd authentication information

• /etc/proftpd.pamlist

• Email account information

• /etc/aliases.db

• /etc/mail/mailertable.db

• /etc/smtp_relay.pamlist

• /etc/mail/mailertable.local_domains

• Site information

• /etc/domainname

• /etc/group

• /etc/hosts

• /etc/ld.so.cache

• /etc/nsswitch.conf

• /etc/passwd

• /etc/pwdb.conf

• /etc/shells

• /etc/HOSTNAME

• /etc/mail/domain-info.m4

• SquirrelMail configuration file generated by Ensim

• <Document root of the Web server>/squirrelmail/config/ensim_config.php

• SSH authentication information

• /etc/ssh.pamlist

• Telnet authentication information

• /etc/telnet.pamlist

• Files not owned by group adminxyz (for example, admin123) or root