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Hello,

I am in the process of moving over 10-20 sites to a new dedicated server. I have set vestacp up in the same way (as per the documentation).

I can export users to a backup file, however when I transfer this to the new machine and try to v-restore-user, it is complaining that the tar file is not valid. I have checked the archive, and it is intact, and contains files in an appropriate structure.

I have tried this with the admin account, but also with a user account (both before and after manually creating the account.

I would be grateful for any advice.

Here is the process I have been trying and the error messages:

On original box
CODE: SELECT ALL

v-backup-user <username>
-- SYSTEM --
2014-07-05 19:30:35 <username>.conf
2014-07-05 19:30:35 stats.log
2014-07-05 19:30:35 history.log
2014-07-05 19:30:35 pam

-- WEB --
2014-07-05 19:30:35 <website>
2014-07-05 19:30:39 <website>
2014-07-05 19:30:39 <website>
2014-07-05 19:30:40 <website>
2014-07-05 19:30:40 <website>
2014-07-05 19:30:41 <website>
2014-07-05 19:31:00 *** 6 domains ***

-- DNS --
2014-07-05 19:31:00 <domain>
2014-07-05 19:31:00 <domain>
2014-07-05 19:31:00 *** 2 domains ***

-- MAIL --
2014-07-05 19:31:01 *** 0 domains ***

-- DB --
2014-07-05 19:31:01 <db> (mysql)
2014-07-05 19:31:01 <db> (mysql)
2014-07-05 19:31:01 *** 2 databases ***

-- CRON --
2014-07-05 19:31:02 *** 0 jobs ***

-- User Dir --
2014-07-05 19:31:02 adding directory tmp
2014-07-05 19:31:02 *** 1 user directory ***

-- SUMMARY --
2014-07-05 19:31:02 Local: /backup/<username>.2014-07-05.tar
2014-07-05 19:31:03 Size: 274 Mb
2014-07-05 19:31:03 Runtime: 1 minute

root@<original>:/home/backup# scp /backup/<username>.2014-07-05.tar <user>@<remotehost>:/home/backup/
<user>@<new>'s password:
<username>.2014-07-05.tar 100% 273MB 10.5MB/s 00:26
On newbox
CODE: SELECT ALL

root@<newbox>:/home/backup# v-restore-user <username> /home/acid/<username>.2014-07-05.tar
Error: backup /home/backup/<username>.2014-07-05.tar is not valid

root@<new>:/home# tar tfv /home/backup/torsweb.2014-07-05.tar | head -n 10
drwx------ root/root 0 2014-07-05 19:31 ./
drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2014-07-05 19:31 ./db/
drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2014-07-05 19:31 ./db/<site>/
drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2014-07-05 19:31 ./db/<site>/conf/
-rw-r--r-- root/root 178 2014-07-05 19:31 ./db/<site>/conf/<site>.mysql.<site>
drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2014-07-05 19:31 ./db/<site>/vesta/
-rw-r--r-- root/root 200 2014-07-05 19:31 ./db/<site>/vesta/db.conf
-rw-r--r-- root/root 593714 2014-07-05 19:31 ./db/<site>/<site>.mysql.sql.gz
drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2014-07-05 19:31 ./db/<site>/
drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2014-07-05 19:31 ./db/<site>/conf/
Many thanks for any ideas!

Hi

Try store your backup inside /home/backup or inside /backup with a symlink to /home/backup

If you store it in /home/USER/backup.tar and then restore it you may can have this problem