Move vhosts and keep links

[RossProactive]

Hi all - I have a Plesk 10.3 server running on CentOS 6.

I am running out of space on the current drive, and have installed a new disk to hold my vhosts folder.

I need to run the transvhosts.pl script to move the vhosts folder; so:

1 Can someone please advise what the command should be?
2 Does it matter what I mount the new drive as?
3 And most importantly, will this process mean the paths to /var/www/vhosts/mysite are still valid? I have lots of scripts which refer to files by the full path, so if the path changes, they will all require a rewrite.

Many thanks experts

Ross

 

[RossProactive]

Thinking about ( I am not the world's greatest Linux brain) do I actually need to run the Plesk command at all? Can't I just mount the new drive as /var/www/vhosts somehow, and move files over?

 

[IgorG]

Have you tried to read carefully output of this command with --help option?

 

[RossProactive]

Yes I did, but it does not answer all my questions. That's why I came here.

 

[Sergey L]

Can't I just mount the new drive as /var/www/vhosts somehow, and move files over?

Yes, you definitely can. Just be sure ownership/permissions are preserved.

 

[RossProactive]

Thanks Sergey, I think this is more of a Linux issue rather than a Plesk issue, but would this be the process:

Format the new partition
Stop apache
Rename var/www/vhosts to vhosts_old
Create var/www/vhosts and mount /dev/sd1a to this point
Rsync data from var/www/vhosts_old to var/www/vhosts
Start apache

Am I on the right track?

Thanks for your help.

 

[Sergey L]

Yes, I think that's right approach. If there are other people accessing Plesk, I would also stop Plesk to prevent any changes while moving data.

/etc/init.d/psa stop

 

[RossProactive]

Thanks so much!