Moving Plesk Server

[flashwebhost]

Hi,

I am moving a Plesk server to a new data center. Can any one suggest how to i move the data to new server ?

Using psadump to backup all accounts, then restore them on new server is correct way ? Or there an easy way for moving all accounts in a server to new server ?

Thanks,

Yujin

 

[blank_page]

Hello,

There is an easier way .

Install the same os , plesk packages on the new server.

copy(or rsync) the home, /var/qmail/mailnames to the new server
copy the password files over to the new server (here you may have to force reinstall the plesk so the uids gets corrected)
dump the databases and restore on the new server.
mailman should be copied there as well.

Anyway if you copy the right stuff directly all would be ok.

Migration is good as well but it takes time and could fail at some point.

 

[flashwebhost]

Is there any list of folders that need to copied to new server ?

 

[blank_page]

Hello,

The home directory:

/home/httpd/vhosts/
or
/var/www/vhosts/
depending on how is your plesk set up

/var/qmail/mailnames/


from etc :

passwd
passwd-
group
group-
gshadow
gshadow-
shadow
shadow-


if you need old plesk key :

/etc/psa/psa.key

The crontab files:

/var/spool/cron

That is about it.