About Site export

A Site export backs up all the sites hosted on your account.

The site user accounts, service configuration information and related files are exported.

When you export a site, the following file 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 zone 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.
Files 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
The export includes the following information.
- 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