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How to Migrate Cpanel to Eenos

Start migration from Cpanel to Eenos

Some sample conversion commands and syntax are given below:

Convert a Cpanel backup file to an Eenos Backup file

You can convert a cpanel backup file to an Eenos backup file. The cpanel backup file must be a .tar or .tar.gz file.

This operation can be performed from any server, there is no need for cpanel installed. You only need to cptoeenos tool.

Syntax:

cptoeenos --saveto /path-to-save-converted-backup --backupfile /path-to-cpanel-account-backup-file

Where,

  • /path-to-save-converted-backup is a folder name to save the converted backup files
  • /path-to-cpanel-account-backup-file is the full path to the cpanel backup file

Example:

If we are going to convert a cpanel backup name backup-10.14.2023_16-20-05_mycpuser.tar.gz and store the converted backup into the folder /backup. The command is as follows:

cp2eenos --saveto /backup --backupfile /home/backup-10.14.2023_16-20-05_mycpuser.tar.gz

This will generate a backup on /backup/eenosbkp-myuser.tar.gz. You may upload this backup file to your  Eenos server and restore it.

To know how to restore a backup in the Eenos Control Panel, please check the restoration documentation.

Convert WHM Hosting Packages to Eenos Hosting Packages

The migration of whm hosting packages to Eenos hosting packages is easy.

You need to install cptoeenos in your Cpanel server to perform this task.

Please use the following command to convert WHM hosting packages.

cptoeenos --saveto /backup --packages

This will convert all your hosting packages from whmcs server and place them into a folder named EenosHostingPackages inside your saved path.

Here the converted package location will be in /backup/EenosHostingPackages

You may now copy or upload  all .yaml files from this folder into /var/eenos/packages/ of your Eenos server

Please make sure to change ownership of all files inside /var/eenos/packages/  will have the eenos user ownership

chown eenos:eenos /var/eenos/packages/*

If the WHM package name contains white spaces or dots, it will be replaced with a hyphen in Eenos during the package conversion.

Convert Cpanel Account

You can convert a Cpanel live account into an Eenos backup file.

You need to install cptoeenos in your Cpanel server to perform this task.

Syntax:

cp2eenos --saveto /backup --user cpusername

Where,

  • cpusername is the cpanel account username

The above command will generate an Eenos-compatible backup of the user cpusername and place it into the location /backup/eenosbkp-cpusername.tar.gz

You may upload this backup file to your Eenos server and restore it.

It is safe to install and use cptoeenos in your production Cpanel server. This tool doesn't make changes to server data or files. It will only copy the required data to the chosen destination. So it is always safe to use the tool in your production servers.

Convert the  Whole Cpanel Server

You can convert all Cpanel accounts and whm hosting packages from your Cpanel server with a simple command.

Syntax:

cp2eenos --saveto /backup  --full

This command will perform the following actions:

  • Convert all cpanel accounts and place them into the folder /backup
  • Convert all whm hosting packages and place them into the folder /backup/EenosHostingPackages

Running Conversion in Server Background

You can run any conversion command in the server backup ground using the flag --demon or -d

Example: Run the full server conversion in the server background

cp2eenos --saveto /backup  --full --demon
Automatic upload of converted backups into a remote server

You can attach a post-upload script for the conversion process so that your script will be executed after the backup conversion. This will help you to run automatic upload of converted backups to your remote  Eenos server.

To run a post-upload script, you may use the  flag --postupload path_to_script or -pu path_to_script

where,

  • path_to_script is your automation script, please make sure this script has execute permission.

This script will be provided with one command line argument which is the backup saved path.

Example : 

Convert the whole cpanel accounts and WHM packages then upload to a remote server using my post upload script /root/postupload.sh

cp2eenos --saveto /backup  --full --demon --postupload /root/postupload.sh

The conversion process will run in the server background and execute the post-upload script soon after finishing the cpanel account conversion process. 

CptoEenos Log Files

All conversion tasks will be logged to the file /var/log/cptoeenos.log  

For non-root users, the log file will be: $HOME/cptoeenos.log  

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