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This document explains how to recover non-CP Linux/FreeBSD boxes on H-Sphere 2.5 and up.
If you are restoring CP, see Recovering Control Panel.
If you have H-Sphere 2.4.x, please refer to this document.
Important: To successfully recover a crashed server, you must meet the following requirements:
- you must have all user content and configuration files previously
backed up;
- you must have the physical and logical server structure of the crashed server preserved in admin CP in the E.Manager menu.
We suggest the following recovery procedure:
Prepare Crashed Server For Recovery
- Prepare the server where the crashed box's services and content are to be restored,
according to H-Sphere installation requirements.
- Make sure this "blank" server is bound to the same IP the crashed server had.
- Place the cpanel user's public SSH keys from the CP server
to the server to be recovered
so that you can connect via SSH from CP server's root to the new box without password.
Step 2. Run H-Sphere Updater
- Log into the CP server as root:
$ su -l
- Download the update script of the H-Sphere version you were running on the crashed server.
See the list of H-Sphere versions.
If you already have an older version of the updater in the current directory,
please remove or rename this file before the download.
- Run the updater on the directory where you have downloaded it. For example, for H-Sphere 2.5 Patch 4:
# sh ./U25.0P4
- Restore the crashed server software by typing in the following command in the updater's command line prompt:
hspackages ips=<CRASHED_SERVER_IP>
See hspackages options.
Step 3. Run The Recovery Tool
Web, Mail, MySQL, PgSQL servers: To restore your H-Sphere physical resources (Unix users and configuration),
log in as the cpanel user and
run PhysicalCreator.
Note: Do not confuse the account ID with the server ID you used when
generating configuration files. Account IDs could be found in the
accounts table of the H-Sphere system database.
DNS server: For DNS servers, log in as the cpanel user and
run DNS Creator:
java psoft.hsphere.tools.DNSCreator -m db
Step 4. Restore User Content
To restore data from the backup, check with the backup and recovery list
for for this server. Restore listed directories from /var/backup/<ARCHIVE>.tgz
or custom backup directory into the appropriate locations.
More on backup recovery
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