Migration using commandline

[MerlijnH]

Hiya,

I have migrated many sites and servers using the migration manager, and this has worked out well most of the time. While preparing for another big batch of migrations, I would like to automate more things resulting in less downtime for the websites.

Since Plesk has a great and huge API, I figured I could just pass the arguments from the webinterface to some command and it would do the same thing. However I wasn't able to find the documentation to call the PMM cli specifically. Some of the advanced server administration documentation mentions doing a pleskbackup and running pre9-backup-convert tool, but I haven't been able to get clean dumps I could deploy on Plesk 9.5.2 servers.

What I would like to do is create a script that will migrate clients one by one, suspending their domains before moving, re-enabling them on the server and change the DNS as well. In theory I could move entire servers this way with only a couple minutes downtime per website.

I know that I could do the same thing using manual clicking, but automating it will make my life a lot easier. Can anyone point me to the way I can invoke the migration manager to perform a migration of a client or domain?

Cheers,

Merlijn

 

[IgorG]

Running pre9-backup-convert tool is required only in case when you have backup of Plesk 8.x version. If you perform migration from 9.x to 9.x this conversion is not necessary.
Also did you read API documentation http://download1.parallels.com/Plesk/PPP9/Doc/en-US/plesk-9.5-api-rpc/ ?
There are samples of clients migration - http://download1.parallels.com/Plesk/PPP9/Doc/en-US/plesk-9.5-api-rpc/63468.htm
You can add necessary options to this API request and create own.