Full system restore with Rsync - Plesk restore safe?

[RobertReyes]

Would like to know what are the dangers of backing up and restoring full entire system backups (with plesk installed) to another server with a different ip address? Will the restored plesk setup operate properly and offer an ip address change in the system, or will there be any pre-requisites required such as manual ip changing within the system core files?

 

[vzhidkov]

Hello,
By default Plesk encrypts backup with server secret key. This key is unique for each Plesk server. So if you will try to restore this backup on other server you will loose all encrypted data. For example all passwords.
Since Plesk 12.5 you can encrypt backup with password instead of secret key.
If you want to transfer your data from one Plesk server to another the best way is migration.
You can use Migration Guide for you reference.
All information about backup and restoration process you can find in Plesk Administrator's Guide.