Help me understand how migration manager works

[polloboy]

Hello everyone,

Could someone please walk me through the process and help me understand how migration manager works in the following situation?

I want to move my Plesk installation and all accounts, databases, user files, email, everything from Machine A to Machine B. Both machines are on the same subnet and Machine B is just an upgraded version of Machine A.

Both A and B will be running the same version of CetOS5 and Plesk8.3.

There are approximately 60 domains across 25 user accounts.

I've looked at the documentation and it looks like it might be as simple as running a backup on Machine A and then restoring it on Machine B.

But what about the IP addresses? and the name servers configured in Plesk? How do those get translated?

Does it really do the databases and emails and everything?

What do I need to look out for?

Obviously I want this to be as transparent as possible for my users.

Thanks in advance! Really!

[ib1984]

Migration Manager provides good Wizard to perform migration -- with IP mapping and everything. It migrates all the data that belongs to Plesk (including mailboxes, databases, files, DNS records etc.). As to IPs -- most simple solution is to migrate domains and map them to some private-network IPs (e.g. 10.10.10.1) and after migration is done re-map them to IPs of old server using reconfigurator.pl (http://kb.swsoft.com/en/943) Plesk utility. However, if all domains' authoritive DNS servers are hosted on Plesk and you have spare IPs it might not be required -- you may just map old IPs to bunch of public (externally available) IPs and DNS records will be updated accordingly.

[polloboy]

Thank you! for the reply. I was beginning to think nobody looked in here. I'm still kinda new to Plesk but once I get further up the learning curve you know I'll be repaying those karma points!

Since I'm moving from my old server that has 5 IPs to a new one with 10 IPs available it sounds like the remapping won't be a problem. All domains and everything are hosted/managed inside Plesk. So it sounds like this might be a relatively simple project.

I'll post results here once everything's done.

[tany]

it may be useful to read docs also (just a note):

http://www.parallels.com/en/products/plesk/docs/

[rr1024]

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