Migrating 47 cPanel sites without paying JetBackup tax So my host decided jetbackup is now $3/mo per account 47 sites = $141/mo for something rsync does free anyway I wrote this over the weekend First I dumped all users via whmapi1 listaccts | jq -r '.data.acct[].user' then for each one I rsync -avz --exclude=mail/ /home/$user/ to the new box mail I did separately with imapsync because some of these people have 20gb inboxes from 2019 Databases were the pain point whmapi1 list_mysql_databases_and_users per user mysqldump each one scp mysql on new side the api calls are the slow part 47 sites took 6 hours total The trick is doing it in two passes first pass while live second pass during maintenance window cut dns ttl to 300 beforehand Anyone else done this at scale or am I the only cheap one here
