Creating a full system backup from SSH

[Starteck2002]

Hi, we have an installation of DA that is (for want of better words) screwed. trying to log in as admin it just goes back to the login screen (no errors). Changing the password in SSH makes no difference.

The machine is being migrated to another server so we need to get the client accounts off - how can we create a backup of those accounts from SSH?

[floyd]

echo "action=backup&local_path=/home/admin/admin_backups&owner=admin&type=admin&value=multiple&when=now&where=local&who=all" >> /usr/local/directadmin/data/task.queue

/usr/local/directadmin/dataskq &

[Starteck2002]

that returned:

[1] 23004

Is that correct?

[scsi]

You have to check the logs. That just tells you the pid which the process forked to the bg as.