Sometimes you may wish to back up a single account or your whole cPanel server using SSH. In cPanel you can backup a single account or multiple accounts at the same time. However, if you have a backup job configured you will need to force the cPanel backups to run. We’re going to go through taking a backup of a single cPanel account and then forcing cPanel backups server-wide. To complete this you will need to be logged in as the root user. On cPanel NVMe VPS Servers you can run cPanel backups manually using SSH.
Backup Single cPanel Account
You can use the /scripts/pkgacct script to take a backup of a cPanel account.
/scripts/pkgacct cpanel_userForce cPanel Backups
The –force argument will force cPanel to run any backup jobs configured in WHM.
/usr/local/cpanel/bin/backup --force Watch Backups in Real Time
If you want to watch the backup run from the console you can use tail. You should see a link to the backup log file in the console now. Use the tail -f command with the file name in the console to watch the backup in real time.
tail -f bacvkup93472374854.txtBackup A Single cPanel Account
We have covered how to back up a cPanel account and migrate it to a new host in the How to Migrate cPanel accounts article.
