Restore a cPanel full backup on CentOS to Ubntu

If you already have the cpanel backup tar.gz file it’s pretty straightforward. You can do it ll via a nice gui web interface using VirtualMin’s migrate virtual server function.

1. Install virtualmin (note you may need to install wget with “yum install wget”)

• wget http://software.virtualmin.com/gpl/scripts/install.sh
• chmod +x install.sh
• ./install.sh
• /etc/init.d/webmin start

2. Go to your new webmin install via your browser - [domain or ip]:10000

3. In the search bar at the bottom of the menu type: migrate virtual

4. Click on the migrate virtual server link and follow these instructions.http://www.virtualmin.com/documentation/id,virtualmin_for_cpanel_users/#copying_the_cpanel_backup_to_your_virtualmin_server

I ran into trouble when I tried to have it automatically work out the user/password so give it a user/password and it should work fine.

Have you confirmed that cPanel can run on Ubuntu? Last I heard (which was a loooong time ago), cPanel could only run on CentOS.

I am not going to run cPanel on Ubuntu. The backup was made on cPanel but it is nothing but .tar.gz file which contain the structure of the web site.