📘Restore Multiple cPanel Backups

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This guide provides various methods to restore multiple cPanel account backups using WHM or command-line tools.

🔁 Restore a Single Account

Navigate to your backup folder and run:

cd /backup/accounts/2017-09-24
/scripts/restorepkg nameofuseraccount

🧨 Force Restore (Overwrite Existing Account)

If the cPanel account already exists and you wish to overwrite it:

cd /backup/daily/accounts
/scripts/restorepkg --force nameofuseraccount

🔄 Restore All Compressed Accounts (Loop Through)

To restore all .tar.gz backups in a directory:

cd /backup/daily/2018-13-11/accounts
for archive in `ls`; do /scripts/restorepkg $archive; done

⚙️ Restore Multiple Accounts via backup_restore_manager

📌 Important:

Make sure account backups are enabled in WHM:

WHM >> Backup >> Backup Configuration

Your backups should be located in:

/backup/YYYY-MM-DD/accounts/

Replace YYYY-MM-DD with the actual backup date.

🔁 Restore from Incremental Backups

RESTORE_FROM_DATE="2017-09-24"
BACKUP_TYPE="daily"

if [ "$BACKUP_TYPE" = "daily" ]; then
  BACKUP_BASE="/backup/$RESTORE_FROM_DATE/accounts/"
else
  BACKUP_BASE="/backup/$BACKUP_TYPE/$RESTORE_FROM_DATE/accounts/"
fi

for CP_ACC in $(find "$BACKUP_BASE" -maxdepth 1 -type d | awk -F/ '{print $5}' | sed 's/.tar.gz//g'); do
  /usr/local/cpanel/bin/backup_restore_manager add user="$CP_ACC" restore_point="$RESTORE_FROM_DATE" mail_config=1 mysql=1 subdomains=1
done

📦 Restore from Compressed Backups

RESTORE_FROM_DATE="2017-09-24"
BACKUP_TYPE="daily"

if [ "$BACKUP_TYPE" = "daily" ]; then
  BACKUP_BASE="/backup/$RESTORE_FROM_DATE/accounts/"
else
  BACKUP_BASE="/backup/$BACKUP_TYPE/$RESTORE_FROM_DATE/accounts/"
fi

for CP_ACC in $(find "$BACKUP_BASE" -type f -name '*.tar.gz' | awk -F/ '{print $5}' | sed 's/.tar.gz//g'); do
  /usr/local/cpanel/bin/backup_restore_manager add user="$CP_ACC" restore_point="$RESTORE_FROM_DATE" mail_config=1 mysql=1 subdomains=1
done

✅ Final Notes

  • Ensure that backups are in: /backup/2017-09-24/accounts/
  • Adjust RESTORE_FROM_DATE and paths accordingly.
  • Compressed backups typically end in .tar.gz
  • Use --force option if account already exists and must be overwritten.
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