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How to amend the emails from Cpanel backups to the current account

If a customer happens to delete their emails you can still retrieve them from the cpanel backup system. This will take root access to move the files from the backup folder tot he customers account.

You can extract a backup archive and copy over the emails to an account’s existing mail directory. If restoring a backup archive, you will find emails located at:

Code:
/home/cpmove-username/homedir/mail/domain.com/email-account/

You can also find emails from the default account within:

Code:
/home/cpmove-username/homedir/mail/

The following thread is intended for manual migrations to cPanel, but it includes details about the maildir structure that will be useful to you:

Manual Migrations to cPanel

Backup cleaner script for cpanel

#!/usr/bin/perl
# cPlicensing.net – scripts             Copyright(c) 2003 cPlicensing.net.
#                                       All rights Reserved.
# support@cPlicensing.net               http://cPlicensing.net
# Unauthorized copying is prohibited
#Version: 0.01

use POSIX;

$delete_old     = ‘1’; #0 or 1, set to 1 to remove old account backups
if($ARGV[0] eq “-d”) { $delete_old = ‘1’; }

$|++;
POSIX::nice(19);

print “Reading Backup Config…”;
open(CPBACK,”/etc/cpbackup.conf”) or die(“Failed, Does it exist and do you have access?\n”);
while(<CPBACK>) {
s/\n//g;
my($name,$value) = split(/ /, $_);
$CONF{$name} = $value;
}
close(CPBACK);
print “Complete\n”;

if ($CONF{‘BACKUPENABLE’} ne “yes”) {
die “Backup Not Enabled\n”;
}
if (! -e $CONF{‘BACKUPDIR’}){
die “Backup Dir Doesnt Exist\n”;
}

until (`ps ax` !~ m/cpbackup/) {
print “Detected cpbackup process…Sleeping for 60 Seconds\n”;
sleep(60);
};

if ($CONF{‘BACKUPMOUNT’} eq “yes”) {
if(`mount` !~ m/$CONF{‘BACKUPDIR’}/){
system(“mount”,”$CONF{‘BACKUPDIR’}”);
}
system(“mount”,”-o”,”remount,rw”,”$CONF{‘BACKUPDIR’}”);
}

cleandir(“$CONF{‘BACKUPDIR’}/cpbackup/daily”);
cleandir(“$CONF{‘BACKUPDIR’}/cpbackup/weekly”);
cleandir(“$CONF{‘BACKUPDIR’}/cpbackup/monthly”);

if ($CONF{‘BACKUPMOUNT’} eq “yes”) { system(“umount”,”$CONF{‘BACKUPDIR’}”); }

sub cleandir {
my($target) = @_;

opendir(DIRTYDIR,”$target”);
@DIRTYDIR = readdir(DIRTYDIR);
closedir(DIRTYDIR);

foreach(@DIRTYDIR) {
next if /^\.\.?$|^files$|^dirs$/;
if(-f “$target/$_”){
$user = $_;
$user =~ s/.tar.gz//;
if(! -f “/var/cpanel/users/$user”){
if($delete_old == 1){
unlink(“$target/$_”);
print “Deleted Old Backup… $target/$_\n”;
} else {
print “Detected Old Backup… $target/$_\n”;
}
}
next;
}
if(-d “$target/$_”){
if(! -f “/var/cpanel/users/$_”){
if($delete_old == 1){
system(“rm”,”-r”,”$target/$_”);
#print “Directory Delete Not Supported, If you really want to remove dirs (incremental backups) you can edit this script and uncomment the line that looks like #system(\”rm\”,\”-r\”,\”$target/$_\”)\n”;
} else {
print “Detected Old Backup… $target/$_\n”;
}
}
next;
}
}
}