cpanel

If you tried using WHM's Transfer Tool on very large sites, you've probably got a timeout error.

To fix this, we'll need to do this through SSH (via root) what the Transfer Tools wasn't able to do itself.

STEP 1.

The Transfer Tool will create a /scripts directory--with all required scripts--at the base of your server, which we will use to create WHM/cPanel compatible backups.

The name of the script will look like the following: /scripts/pkgacct.YOUR_CPANEL_SERVER_NAME

Type the following to get the exact name:

ls -la /scripts/

STEP 2.
Next, go into your /home directory to get a listing of the account names.

If you're using godaddy cpanel hosting, you have 2 options of installing drush

1. drush version from drupal (which is NOT being updated anymore--unlike the latest github version).

or 2. (Preferred) Install the latest github version:

Go here to view instructions on how to install the latest version of drush from github.

cd ~
wget http://ftp.drupal.org/files/projects/drush-7.x-5.9.tar.gz
tar xvf drush-7.x-5.9.tar.gz 

Now we add the drush paths to our .bash_profile.

vi .bash_profile 

Paste the following in toward the top: