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I recently had a Dedicated Server at a colocation facilityrunning with mirrored drives lose a drive. I had 80 domains and about 1300 email accounts on a single volume that was mirrored.
The drives were not hot-swappable so the machine had to be powered down to replace the faulty drive. After replacing the mirror drive which had cooled down the primary drive wouldn't come ready and kept "recal"ing ...
My only image was the mirror drive which was corrupted but still readable. To the best of my knowledge it appears the psa, qmail, and other folders are all still intact.
The colocation facility installed two new hard-drives in a mirrored configuration, with a fresh OS, a new Plesk install and new Plesk license key.
I had the colocation facility mount the faulty drive as /bad_drive "read-only" ... with the old Plesk installation at /bad_drive/etc/psa/psa.config ... and with the new Plesk installation at /etc/psa/psa.config
I intended to run Pleskbackup to recover the old installation. I encountered several limitations.
1) Pleskbackup does not let me specify which config file to use (i.e. /bad_drive/etc/psa/psa.config) and defaults to /etc/psa/psa.config
2) I modified /etc/psa/psa.config to reference the Plesk install at /bad_drive/usr/local/psa/ ...
3) Pleskbackup attempts to write temporary files to the "read-only" drive.
4) I modified /etc/psa/psa.config to reference DUMP and TMP folders on the new drive which is read-write.
5) Pleskbackup still attempts to write temporary files to the "read-only" drive partition.
>>> Is there a Backup/Migration tool I can use to backup a non-active Plesk environment?
>>> Is there a version of Pleskbackup that can overcome these limitations?
Thanks
The drives were not hot-swappable so the machine had to be powered down to replace the faulty drive. After replacing the mirror drive which had cooled down the primary drive wouldn't come ready and kept "recal"ing ...
My only image was the mirror drive which was corrupted but still readable. To the best of my knowledge it appears the psa, qmail, and other folders are all still intact.
The colocation facility installed two new hard-drives in a mirrored configuration, with a fresh OS, a new Plesk install and new Plesk license key.
I had the colocation facility mount the faulty drive as /bad_drive "read-only" ... with the old Plesk installation at /bad_drive/etc/psa/psa.config ... and with the new Plesk installation at /etc/psa/psa.config
I intended to run Pleskbackup to recover the old installation. I encountered several limitations.
1) Pleskbackup does not let me specify which config file to use (i.e. /bad_drive/etc/psa/psa.config) and defaults to /etc/psa/psa.config
2) I modified /etc/psa/psa.config to reference the Plesk install at /bad_drive/usr/local/psa/ ...
3) Pleskbackup attempts to write temporary files to the "read-only" drive.
4) I modified /etc/psa/psa.config to reference DUMP and TMP folders on the new drive which is read-write.
5) Pleskbackup still attempts to write temporary files to the "read-only" drive partition.
>>> Is there a Backup/Migration tool I can use to backup a non-active Plesk environment?
>>> Is there a version of Pleskbackup that can overcome these limitations?
Thanks
