migration???

[thundercon787]

Hi there I want peoples opinions and what do they think kinda things on this

I'm looking at using the Plesk Migration Manager.. I've never used it before but figuered what the hell why not try it atleast once.. now this is the box i am going to migrate from

psa v7.5.4_build75051209.14 os_FedoraCore 2
OS Linux 2.6.5-1.358smp


this is the box I am going to migrate the info to

psa v8.0.1_build80060903.14 os_FedoraCore 4
OS Linux 2.6.11-1.1369_FC4smp


again using the migration manager.. what do you think? reason why i am doing this is because I am moving a customer to a new location and insteado f doing the work manually and setting up each domain and account i would try this..

should i leave the box as it is and no upgrades or shall i upgrade and then try using the migration manager.... anyone have any luck with this or have any suggestions? thanx

-mike

 

[poke]

I've had about a 90% success rate with the PMM. I would give it a shot as the worst case scenerio is the migration goes bad and you simply delete the data and try again manually. Using the PMM doesn't affect the source machine when it's done so it will remain intact.

It will help you to upgrade your old box, but unless you properly backup your data, it could be one of those plesk 7.x to 7.5.x/8.x disasters.

I'd go for it though, you won't "break" the old functioning server if the migration goes bad

 

[thundercon787]

I get this after the ip mapping goes through


The command "update" was ignored.

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0: /usr/local/psa/admin/plib/PMM/MigrationIpMap.php:74
MigrationIpMap->stepList()
1: /usr/local/psa/admin/plib/PMM/MigrationCObject.php:100
MigrationCObject->make()
2: /usr/local/psa/admin/htdocs/server/PMM/main.php:27

 

[albans]

I recommend that you update the plesk 7.x box to 8 before trying to migrate.

Then, you could migrate it "manually"... What I mean by manually is to backup the DBs (via mysqldump), the www files (little tar of /var/vhosts) and the PSA configuration (via their tool without content).

After all that, you create your own map file (IP to IP, SQL users to SQL users, etc...).

You transfer and restore (to the new host) the config from Plesk, the DBs and the www files (in this order, or the PSA restore utility will remove everything).

I do this via a cron job every week to mirror my PSA box to a virtual host and it works well.

Hope this'll be usefull!