Disaster Recovery / Fastest Restore

[CGI1979]

Dear Plesk group,

I'm working on a plan for restoring my whole Plesk server fast in a worst case scenario.
Which will never happen hopefully.

The backup is a full backup done by the Backup Manager in Plesk.
It lies on a remote FTP server.

Right now I'm fetching the whole backup directory with wget while in the background the Plesk Installation is running. These actions take about 1h to complete.

Afterwards I would restore with /usr/local/psa/bin/pleskrestore.

Is there a better way? For example installing Plesk directly out of a full backup?

Thanks,
Chris

 

[IgorG]

Look at this KB article - http://kb.odin.com/en/112699

 

[CGI1979]

Thanks Igor! The tutorial describes how to restore if the old disk is still accessible.

What would be the way to restore a full backup created by the Backup Manager?
Doesn't the full backup also include all the information to restore the Plesk Panel itself?

 

[IgorG]

Yes, it is one of scenario for transferring to another server - http://download1.parallels.com/Ples...nstallation-upgrade-migration-guide/71256.htm

 

[CGI1979]

Thanks! One last question. This command returns the following error:

/usr/local/psa/bin/pleskrestore --restore /var/lib/psa/dumps/backup_info_1504082311.xml -level server

PHP Notice: Trying to get property of non-object; File: /opt/psa/admin/plib/backup/Conflicts/PleskDataManager.php, Line: 173
PHP Notice: Undefined index: 178.13.239.166; File: /opt/psa/admin/plib/backup/Conflicts/PleskDataManager.php, Line: 180

I want to use the IP addresses of the old machine also on the new machine, so I don't need the map parameter do I?
I haven't created the network interfaces yet. Does pleskrestore need those to work properly?

 

[CGI1979]

I probably need to create a map with 178.13.239.166 shared -> 178.13.239.166 shared to make this work right?

 

[IgorG]

You can do it after migration with help of article http://kb.odin.com/en/943

 

[CGI1979]

Do I need this even if I do not want to change the IP adresses?