Plesk 9.2 on a win2k server to plesk 9.3 on Cent os

[Jsawyer]

Recently I have been building a lot of sites using PHP and have been very disappointed in the server performance from my current host. I have decided to move to another provider virtual server provider. During this move I have also decided to go with a Linux server to try to get away from the performance issues associated with the Windows server. My questions are:

1) can I migrate from the windows server to Linux easily ( all current databases use MYSQL server and there are 22 clients)?
2) What is the best practice for migration?

 

[IgorG]

Unfortunately there are no any official possibility to perform sites migration from Win to Lin Plesk. (http://download1.parallels.com/Plesk/PPP9/Doc/en-US/plesk-9.3-migration-guide/63279.htm)
It can be done manually only.

 

[atomicturtle]

For mail at least, check out imapsync. It works just like rsync, but uses the IMAP protocol

 

[Jsawyer]

For mail at least, check out imapsync. It works just like rsync, but uses the IMAP protocol

I am not as worried about the mail as I just host sites.

I have created the backup file for the windows(1.13GB) server, but when trying to upload it to the new server It times out. I can FTP it to the new server but I have some questions.

1) The file from the windows server is .zip not a tgz file. is that ok?
2) Do I just upload the file to the dump directory or do I need to extract all the files to the dump directory?

any help will be appreciated.

TIA
Josh

 

[atomicturtle]

That sounds like possibly firewall rules. As a debugging step, try clearing your rules with:

/etc/init.d/iptables stop

and try to ftp the file again. To your latter question, .zip is fine, at most you'll just need to install unzip to extract it.

 

[Jsawyer]

That sounds like possibly firewall rules. As a debugging step, try clearing your rules with:

/etc/init.d/iptables stop

and try to ftp the file again. To your latter question, .zip is fine, at most you'll just need to install unzip to extract it.

I can FTP I just cant use the upload function from the GUI in plesk. I think the file may be too large for that.

Once I upload the file I will extract everything to the dump directory correct? From there should I see the files in the plesk gui?

Thank you
Josh