How to restore cpanel backup with new username

 In older version it was not possible to restore cpanel backup with new username, but In new version (WHM 11.44.1 (build 11)) its possible. Follow the below steps to do it.

• Take backup of corresponding account
• Terminate the account
• Restore the account with new username

Use the below syntax to restore the cpanel backup with new username. Instead of newusername you need to give your newusername whatever you want.

# /scripts/restorepkg --newuser newusername /path/to/backup/file

For example:-

1)Taking backup of abc account using scripts command.

/scripts/pkgacct abc

2)Terminating abc account from cpanel

root@server123 [/home]# /scripts/killacct abc

3)Restoring the same domain with different/new username.

/scripts/restorepkg --newuser abc2 /home/backup-7.5.2016_14-34-21_abc.tar.gz

4) Verifying the restored account username details in home directory. Yes, its restored with new username and also created soft link

root@server57323 [/home]# ls -lh
total 926M
drwx--x--x   8 root             root             4.0K Jun 13 13:09 backup/
-rw-------   1 root             root             926M Jul  4 13:45 backup-7.4.2014_13-44-24_cloudana.tar.gz
drwx--x--x  14 abc2          abc2          4.0K Aug  8 10:34 abc2/
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root             root               13 Aug  8 10:31 abc -> /home/abc2/