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Guide to Transfer and Restore API Functions - Pause and Restart the Transfer Session

Introduction

In case of server issues, you can pause and restart an active transfer session. Use the same process for both the root and user transfer sessions.

In this example, the following statements are true:

remote.example.com and local.example.com represent the remote server and the local server.
You logged in to the local server with the cpsess########## security token.
The example account owns example.com , and you want to transfer it from the remote server to the local server.
The example.com domain contains 123,456,789 bytes.
You want to transfer the package1 package from the remote server to the local server.
luggage12345 represents the root password for the remote server.

Pause an active transfer session

To pause an active transfer session, use the WHM API 1 pause_transfer_session function.

Select the method by which you wish to call the function:

JSON API

https://hostname.example.com:2087/cpsess##########/json-api/pause_transfer_session?api.version=1&transfer_session_id=exampleservercopya20140206192428NtyW

PHP

include_once '../xmlapi.php';

$ip = getenv('REMOTE_HOST');
$root_user = getenv('REMOTE_USER');
$root_pass = getenv('REMOTE_PASSWORD');

$xmlapi = new xmlapi($ip , $root_user , $root_pass);
$xmlapi->set_output('json');

$settings = array('api.version'=>1, 'transfer_session_id'=>'remoteexamplecopya20140211211719FxjU');
$_result = $xmlapi->xmlapi_query('pause_transfer_session' , $settings);

print $_result;

The function only returns metadata:

{
  "metadata": {
    "version": 1,
    "reason": "OK.",
    "result": 1,
    "command": "pause_transfer_session"
  }
}

Restart the transfer session

To restart the transfer session, use the WHM API 1 start_transfer_session function.

Select the method by which you wish to call the function:

JSON API

https://hostname.example.com:2087/cpsess##########/json-api/start_transfer_session?api.version=1&transfer_session_id=exampleservercopya20140206192428NtyW

PHP

include_once '../xmlapi.php';


$ip = getenv('REMOTE_HOST');
$root_user = getenv('REMOTE_USER');
$root_pass = getenv('REMOTE_PASSWORD');

$xmlapi = new xmlapi($ip , $root_user , $root_pass);
$xmlapi->set_output('json');

$settings = array('api.version'=>1, 'transfer_session_id'=>'remoteexamplecopya20140211211719FxjU');
$_result = $xmlapi->xmlapi_query('start_transfer_session' , $settings);

print $_result;