How to recover direct admin server from crash drive.

First of all mount the crash disk. In my case I am mounting it in /mnt

Now, you have to copy the data from old disk to new disk using below commands

cp -avprf /mnt/etc/passwd /etc/
cp -avprf /mnt/etc/group /etc/
cp -avprf /mnt/etc/shadow /etc/
cp -avprf /mnt/etc/gshadow /etc/
cp -avprf /mnt/etc/my.cnf /etc/
cp -avprf /mnt/etc/exim* /etc/
cp -avprf /mnt/etc/hosts /etc/
cp -avprf /mnt/etc/httpd/conf/* /etc/httpd/conf/
cp -avprf /mnt/etc/named.conf /etc/
cp -avprf /mnt/etc/proftpd.conf /etc/
cp -avprf /mnt/etc/proftpd.passwd /etc/
cp -avprf /mnt/etc/proftpd.vhosts.conf /etc/
cp -avprf /mnt/etc/resolv.conf /etc/
cp -avprf /mnt/etc/system_filter.exim /etc/
cp -avprf /mnt/usr/local/directadmin/conf /usr/local/directadmin/
cp -avprf /mnt/usr/local/directadmin/plugins /usr/local/directadmin/
cp -avprf /mnt/etc/mail /etc/
cp -avprf /mnt/etc/virtual /etc/
cp -avprf /mnt/var/named /var/
cp -avprf /mnt/var/spool/cron /var/spool/
cp -avprf /mnt/var/spool/virtual /var/spool/
cp -avprf /mnt/var/www /var/
cp -avprf /mnt/usr/local/directadmin/data /usr/local/directadmin/
cp -avprf /mnt/var/lib/mysql /var/lib/
cp -avprf /mnt/home/* /home/

 

Once data has been copied from old disk to new disk you have to compile apache and php using direct admin custom script. After successful compilation sites will start working fine.