About User Export

A User export backs up your files and account configuration information.

The export saves your home directory data (in the directory public_html - which is part of your home directory /home) and your email messages (in the directory /var/spool/mail).

Important: The export does not save your email settings, such as responder and alias settings.

Please be aware that any data or configuration changes that occur after the export is taken is lost if you restore that exported data to your system. For example, if you export at 1:00 P.M. and restore that export at 5:00 P.M. the same day, all email messages received during that time period is lost.

When you export a file, a compressed .gz file (UNIX compression format) is created.

The naming convention of an exported file is as follows:

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

Where:
<server_hostname> is the name of the control panel server
<user_name@site_name> is the name of the user exported for the specified site
<export_type> indicates the type of export
<YYYY>_<Month>_<date>_<Hours>_Minutes> is the time-stamp when the data is exported.

For example, exporting the user user1 on the site mysite.com on Jan 06, 2003 at 11.30 creates the following file:

example.com_user1@mysite.com_user_2003_January_06_11_30.tar.gz