The following guide is shamelessly ripped from Pimpenstein's post at http://forums.theplanet.com/index.php?showtopic=38797, but updated for use with cpanel 11.
Edited Original Post
So your cpanel server got hacked or crashed? Lots of that going around these days. And if you didn't have cpanel backups of all your sites, then your only option is to copy from the old drive... heres the basics..
commands to be executed from root shell in code blocks
Order restore from hosting provider.
In trouble ticket specify to leave the old drive in
Once the restore is done, SSH in to box..
create a folder /old to mount the old drive
mkdir /old
mount the old / partition as old (on newer sata boxes almost always /dev/sdb3)
mount /dev/sdb3 /old
rsync -vrplogDtH /old/var/lib/mysql /var/lib rsync -vrplogDtH /old/var/cpanel /var rsync -vrplogDtH /old/usr/local/apache/conf /usr/local/apache rsync -vrplogDtH /old/usr/local/apache/domlogs /usr/local/apache rsync -vrplogDtH /old/usr/local/frontpage /usr/local rsync -vrplogDtH /old/var/named /var rsync -vrplogDtH /old/var/ssl /var rsync -vrplogDtH /old/var/spool/cron /var/spool rsync -vrplogDtH /old/usr/share/ssl /usr/share rsync -vrplogDtH /old/etc/vfilters /etc rsync -vrplogDtH /old/etc/proftpd /etc rsync -vrplogDtH /old/etc/vmail /etc rsync -vrplogDtH /old/home/* /home rsync -vrplogDtH /old/usr/local/cpanel /usr/local rsync -vrplogDtH /old/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailman /usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty rsync -vrplogDtH /old/var/log/bandwidth /var/log rsync -vrplogDtH /old/root/.my.cnf /root rsync -vrplogDtH /old/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf /etc/httpd/conf rsync -vrplogDtH /old/etc/sysconfig/network /etc/sysconfig
then change to the old etc, and execute all on one line ...
cd /old/etc
rsync -vrplogDtH secondarymx domainalias valiases vfilters exim* proftpd* pure-ftpd* passwd* group* *domain* *named* wwwacct.conf cpupdate.conf quota.conf shadow* *rndc* ips* ipaddrpool* ssl hosts userdomains trueuserdomains trueuserowners nameserverips cpupdate.conf demousers localaliases /etc
well I hope I got everything... after you move all that stuff you will find yourself fixing up little things here and there....
If your server has more than 1 ip, cpanel doesnt bind to more than 1 unless the service is started, and configured to run at startup. Also restart cpanel, mysql, apache
service ipaliases start chkconfig --levels 345 ipaliases on /scripts/restartsrv_apache /scripts/restartsrv_named /scripts/restartsrv_mysql /scripts/restartsrv_exim
Update Cpanel etc
/scripts/upcp /scripts/fixeverything /scripts/easyapache
update kernel to latest (plenty of howto's on the forums) mount /tmp as noexec (and symlink /var/tmp to /tmp)
End of Original Post
Hope this comes in useful for someone else, and thanks again to Pimpenstein for writing the original post.
Disclaimer:
The instructions on this thread were used to sucessfully restore a crashed CentOS 4.5 / Cpanel 11 system with the old hard disk as /dev/sdb3 - no hardware/ip changes etc.
If you do not understand the instructions dont go blaming anyone if you break your system.
Copied from http://forums.cpanel.net/showthread.php?t=71394
