rivimont
5th September 2007, 10:30 PM
Since its so hard to find any support-like info for Plesk, I thought I would share my recent experience with a migration here.
I was migrating from FC2 Plesk 8.1 to CentOS 5 Plesk 8.2.
I originally tried to migrate the entire server. The migration first zips up all of the data and then transfers it to the destination server. A lot of additional free space is needed for this. I quickly saw that my server was running out of space. The workaround was to just "migrate" one client at a time.
For the most part the migration went pretty smooth. It looks like the domain data is now stored in /var/www/vhosts/domain.com/ instead of /home/httpd/vhosts/domain.com/. This caused a number of scripts to stop working as I had to update this path.
Some other things I noticed:
- I had a few postgresSQL DBs which didn't migrate over properly. I manually dumped these and then imported them in on the destination server
to dump: pg_dump sitenav > DBNAME_dump
to import: psql -u DBNAME < DBNAME_dump
-Some applications installed via the "application vault" are listed under the application vault for a domain. However, the settings are no longer available here and theres no way to upgrade to the latest version of the app. So it appears (from a Plesk perspective) that I cannot upgrade these applications and I am left with the version that was installed on the original server.
- A few applications (ie. Mambo) are no longer listed as installed under the Application Vault however their DB is listed under databases. This DB is gray and I cannot delete it. I didn't really have any important instances of Mambo so this wasn't a big deal.
Does anyone know the expected behavior of apps installed via the app vault when upgrades to those apps are available.
I was migrating from FC2 Plesk 8.1 to CentOS 5 Plesk 8.2.
I originally tried to migrate the entire server. The migration first zips up all of the data and then transfers it to the destination server. A lot of additional free space is needed for this. I quickly saw that my server was running out of space. The workaround was to just "migrate" one client at a time.
For the most part the migration went pretty smooth. It looks like the domain data is now stored in /var/www/vhosts/domain.com/ instead of /home/httpd/vhosts/domain.com/. This caused a number of scripts to stop working as I had to update this path.
Some other things I noticed:
- I had a few postgresSQL DBs which didn't migrate over properly. I manually dumped these and then imported them in on the destination server
to dump: pg_dump sitenav > DBNAME_dump
to import: psql -u DBNAME < DBNAME_dump
-Some applications installed via the "application vault" are listed under the application vault for a domain. However, the settings are no longer available here and theres no way to upgrade to the latest version of the app. So it appears (from a Plesk perspective) that I cannot upgrade these applications and I am left with the version that was installed on the original server.
- A few applications (ie. Mambo) are no longer listed as installed under the Application Vault however their DB is listed under databases. This DB is gray and I cannot delete it. I didn't really have any important instances of Mambo so this wasn't a big deal.
Does anyone know the expected behavior of apps installed via the app vault when upgrades to those apps are available.