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 Parallels Pro
  • <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