About Site Export

A Site export backs up the following data.

• Site information

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

• Site user accounts

  The export includes the following information.

  User configuration information

  Files in the site owned by the user

Since the site configuration information is also exported, you have the functional independence to migrate your site between the control panel servers and successfully import it whenever needed.   

Note: To restore an export onto a new server, you must contact your service provider and provide him with the necessary site export details to restore the site.

Your service provider can also export your site but cannot export the site and user data separately.

When you export a site, the following archives are created.

• A compressed file (.gz) of the site
• A compressed file (.gz) for each user of the 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 on which your site is hosted
<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 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
• 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
  • $HTML_ROOT/squirrelmail/config/ensim_config.php
• SSH authentication information
  • /etc/ssh.pamlist
• Telnet authentication information
  • /etc/telnet.pamlist
• Bandwidth statistics
• Scheduled export settings
  • /etc/cron/*.*
• Files not owned by group adminxyz (for example, admin123) or root