Does the Migration Manager damage the old site?

[damon]

I've read everything I can find about Migration Manager (can't find 9.21 PMM docs) but never used it. Before I use it to move a busy site to a new server I'd like to know exactly what it does, if anything to the existing site.

I've got two servers running 9.21, old is Centos 4.4 and new is Centos 5.2.

Does the migration manager "make a copy" of the site, including databases, that can be tested on the new server (using the new server IP), or does the process change things on the old server that would take the public site down if the process fails or some settings or required server apps are not available on the new server?

Hope that makes sense, just want to know if Migration Manager is safe to use on a public site that I don't want to blow up.

 

[Total]

The migration utitliy does not damage the old site , But I believe that the new site and the old site have to be running the same operating system .. plesk 8.2 and 9.21 will not work . They both need to be 8.2 or 9.21 for example . I moved 120 gigs from the old to the new , with no issues at all . But I did have to tweak the new server for all my tweaks to fedora on the old server ..

 

[damon]

But I believe that the new site and the old site have to be running the same operating system .. plesk 8.2 and 9.21 will not work . They both need to be 8.2 or 9.21 for example .

These two are both 9.21, but old is Centos 4.4 and new is Centos 5.3.

I moved 120 gigs from the old to the new , with no issues at all . But I did have to tweak the new server for all my tweaks to fedora on the old server ..

Did you have MySql databases included in that? What happened to them? So after the transfer,it's just a matter of changing the name servers for the domain to point to the new server?

Sounds good, now if I can just get my two servers to talk to each other, so far I can't get PMM to start, can't ping between them, or ssh from one to the other.

 

[Total]

These two are both 9.21, but old is Centos 4.4 and new is Centos 5.3.



Did you have MySql databases included in that? What happened to them? So after the transfer,it's just a matter of changing the name servers for the domain to point to the new server?

Sounds good, now if I can just get my two servers to talk to each other, so far I can't get PMM to start, can't ping between them, or ssh from one to the other.

The migration manager moved my 3 mysql databases , well everything then I just had to change the dns server (point it to the new server )

 

[damon]

Thank you, this moderated forum is really frustrating. I wish they would install some "bad behaviour" software like akiment so it would be more useful, it's not hard to do. Full moderation is killing this forum, and probably their product sales.