Migrate from Plesk 8.6 to 9.0.1 - IP mapping?

[Hein Tore Tonnesen]

I've successfully managed to back up a domain hosted on a Plesk 8.6 installation, uploaded it to my new server, and converted the dump to prepare it for 9.0.1 using the following command:

/usr/local/psa/bin/pre9-backup-convert -v convert -d /var/lib/psa/dumps/<mydomain>_2009.03.30_13.09

9.0.1's Backup Managed detects the dump, and I can click on it to start the restoration process. However, after clicking "Restore", I'm taken to a new page that says "New IP addresses: IP address not found". It gives me the option to upload an IP mapping file (until this point I didn't even know what this was ...), but it doesn't seem to like any of my files (tried with 10 different ones, everything from simple <oldip> -> <newip> to way more complicated ones.)

I Google some more, and come across a forum thread that suggests changing the old IP address to the new one in the converted XML file, from the dump.

Again: no go. Same thing happens, apart from that my new IP address is (logically) listed under "Old IP Addresses".

So where do I go from here? Would backing up the old server or just a client be a simpler task, or would that too give the same annoying outcome?

Any suggestions are most appreciated; right now I have a server which I cannot use, although I would very much like to.

Thanks!

 

[Welber Oliveira]

I had the same problem, in my case I had both of my IP adresses set as <exclusive>, after trying all sorts of things I decided to add another IP but this time as <shared> with that set up I try do restore my backup againg and the shared IP was avaliable at the IP mapping screen and the restore was successfully made.

 

[Hein Tore Tonnesen]

This is what the IP Addresses page tells me:

IP address distributed as: Exclusive (Cannot change the type of IP address already allocated to a user. IP address xx.xxx.xx.113 is already allocated to user(s) as exclusive IP address.)

So if I interpret this correctly, your solution is not an option for me?

 

[albans]

I ran exactly in the same problem... Finally, I defined the IP type directly in the MySQL database!
Simply log as MySQL admin (you can do it via the server-wide Database settings in Plesk), open the "psa" database, go to the ip_pool table, then you can modify the type to shared.

Then I had no problem getting the full-server backup!

 

[Hein Tore Tonnesen]

Thank you!

Your solution seems to work for me as well. So far, no errors