plesk to plesk backup location...

[paperlion]

Want to change servers; CentOS 4 to CentOS 4, Plesk 8.0.1 to Plesk 8.1, different hosting cos.

Want to duplicate the client, domain, site, email, ftp, mysql and similar user level files.

-- Should I upgrade the 8.0.1 server to 8.1(1) before creating site/domain backups?

-- Plesk manual is a bit vague as to where the plesk installation directory is, saying to backup (all user accunts with all users' sites with this command):

/plesk_installation_directory/bin/pleskbackup --clients <backup file name>

On the existing (source) server, there's a PSA folder here:

/root/PSA with different version folder and some files within it, but no /bin folder.

Not sure if a /bin folder should be created here within the /PSA folder or maybe the reference is to somewhere else ideally.

The target server (for the restore) has a different structure though it's the same OS and panel. It's GoDaddy, and the /root folder is locked (probably because I'm on a remote session though). Also, the site files in the GoDaddy install are in /home/<domain-username>/ while the existing install has the site files in /var/www/vhosts/<actualdomain.name>/ --so another question is will this effect the restore, and what can be done about it?

If anyone can reference any greater detail on this, would be much appreciated.

thanks.

 

[breun]

The Plesk installation directory depends on your OS. On CentOS it's /usr/local/psa. You can find this location in /etc/psa/psa.conf: grep PRODUCT_ROOT_D /etc/psa/psa.conf

Are you sure the new server uses /home/domainusername? I have never seen that on any Plesk server.

By the way, I'd say the easiest way to migrate to your new server is to use Plesk's Migration Manager.

 

[paperlion]

breun, thanks. Will try to confirm this with grep as you suggested.

Maybe the home/<domain-handle> was a mirror of some sort, but did find these file there.

Didn't want to use Migration Mngr since I didn't know if this would include server level settings beyond the user data, and am not sure if the host has things set elsewise - is this the case?

thanks.

 

[breun]

The Migration Manager doesn't transfer server-level settings, but those are pretty easy to copy (i.e. just open the two Plesk interfaces in different browser tabs and compare). Other than that it's pretty user friendly and a quick and easy way to migrate.