How do I manually move an account to another server ?

When an account is too large to feasibly move using the web browser, the following should work to move the account:

In this example, our domain will be domain.com and our username will be dom.

1. Make a temp directory on /home (we'll call it /home/cptemp/) where you can store the accounts files while copying.
   • mkdir /home/cptemp
   
   
2. Almost all space for an account is in the public_html directory, so we'll want to tar and gzip it, and move that over using scp.
   • cd /home/dom/
   • tar czvf public_html_dom.tgz public_html
   • mv public_html_dom.tgz /home/cptemp/
   • mv public_html /home/cptemp/
   
   
3. Also, oftentimes large sites have large weblogs, which are packaged and transferred, so we take care of those as well:
   • cd /usr/local/apache/domlogs/
   • gzip domain.com
   • mv domain.com.gz /home/cptemp/
   
   
4. Now, with these files in /home/cptemp/, try moving the account over in WHM. Hopefully, it will succeed and set up the new account on the new server. Now we go back to /home/cptemp/ and scp the files to their new home,
   • scp public_html_dom.tgz root@newserver.com:/home/dom/
   
   
5. Enter the root pass for the new server and let it copy the file over.
   • scp domain.com.gz root@newserver.com:/usr/local/apache/domlogs/
   
   
6. Enter the required login information.
   
   
7. Now go to the new server and unpack the two large files you just moved.
   • cd /home/dom/
   • gzip -d domain.com.gz
   • tar xzvf public_html_dom.tgz
   • cd /usr/local/apache/domlogs/