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backup-convert woes

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playerx

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Hi Forum,

I am in the middle of a migration from a Plesk 7.5 server to a newer 8.6 server.

Using the backup-convert tool, after running for tens of minutes, I am getting this error.

/opt/psa/bin/backup-convert --verbose convert --output xxx.dump/xxx.psa.backup xxx.dump/xxx.psa.dump
Runtime error: not a gzip file


I can edit the xxx.psa.dump file and it shows up as a MIME encoded format after a plain text header.

Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 01:07:50 UT
Dump-Type: FULL
Level: 0
Host: xxxx
Sqlver: 0750
Dumped-Psa-Version: 7.5.3
Dumped-Psa-Build: 75060617.18
Creating-Timestamp: 1224810470
Bu-Build: psa_v7.5.x_Backup_Utilities_build060321.20_os_FedoraCore_1_i686
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/related; boundary="_----------=_122481047090530"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary
Package: Backup Utilities
Vendor: SWsoft Inc.

This is a multi-part message in MIME format.

--_----------=_122481047090530


Any help is appreciated, TIA!
 
an update.

Still not working but got a different error message after swapping the arguments around.


xxx@xxxx:/media/local$ sudo /opt/psa/bin/backup-convert --verbose convert xxx.dump/xxx.psa.dump --output xxx.dump/xxx.psa.backup
Content-Type: multipart/related;
boundary="xxx.x.xxxx.xx.xx.xx"
Mime-Version: 1.0

Runtime error: Premature EOF without final boundary



EDIT: swapping the arguments made it use the partially converted file it left behind.

the help for those ineed.
sudo /opt/psa/bin/backup-convert --verbose help convert
Usage: backup-convert convert [<-o|--output> <output-file>] <source-file>

Converts old (pre-8.0) dump format to 8.0 dump format
 
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