About Exporting and Importing Current Sites

The Export feature allows you to capture and store the current state of a site. The Import feature allows you to restore a site to the state it was in when it was exported. This enables you to restore a site to a previously saved state in case the configuration settings or the service-specific data of the site become corrupted.

The service-specific data refers to the options and the files or directories created and managed by the site administrator. For example, the name of the mailing lists created by the site administrator.

The configuration settings refer to the options selected while adding a new or editing an existing user. For example, selection of the Web access flag in the IMAIL mail server service.

Note: The Import feature performs automatic FTP port assignments to all imported sites.

You can export and import a site with the following options:

• Configuration settings of the site and all its users
• Configuration settings of the site and its default site administrator
• Configuration settings and service-specific data of the site and all its users
• Configuration settings and service-specific data of the site and its default site administrator
• Location of exported files

  The location where the exported files are stored is constructed as: <ExportLocation>\ISP\<Machine Name>\Site\<Site Name>\, where:

  • <ExportLocation> the export location specified by your service provider.is the location you specified in the export/import settings.
  • <Machine Name> is the name of the server.
  • <Site Name> is the name of the exported site.
  • <Time Stamp> is the time stamp of the export operation, specified in the mm-dd-yy hh-mm-ss ms format.