This post is really for people who don’t read everything that comes on their screen. Much like myself I make the very foolish mistake of not going over everything on my screen when an error occurs.

So yesterday when I was moving one of my larger sites (5GB worth of data) to a new server I learned that cPanel actually moves the tarball before it restores it. So if their is a failure you have to go into the directory where the file was moved to and move it back into /home; or whatever directory you have setup for the restore functions to read from.

I didn’t read the line that told me where the file was moved. Here is what I did to find the file for those of you who think they need to get another copy of the tarball.

Login via SSH and type find / -name ‘*username*’ where username is the name the user had on the old server. You can also use the word backup and it’ll find it too.

You’ll most likely find the find in “/root/cprestore” so go in and move the file from there to /home. You’ll be able to run the restore command again without having to transfer the tarball once more.