migration from 7.5.3 to 8.6.x

[NightMan]

I have migrated couple of Plesk 8.1.x servers using pleskbackup and pleskrestore utility successfully. Now I have an old server using PLESK 7.5.3. to be migrated/upgraded.
Is it possible to use the Pleskbackup for this migration to the latest version of PLESK 8.6.x?
or
do I need to use the migration option in the PLESK GUI?

 

[NightMan]

anyone...???

 

[breun]

I believe there was a way to convert backups for Plesk 7.5 to Plesk 8, but it didn't work for us at the time. I definitely recommend using the Migration Manager instead.

 

[NightMan]

Yes. I guess that is the easiest way. but problem is I may loose the horde adressbook etc etc.

 

[breun]

Are you sure the Migration Manager doesn't migrate that then? You can always test a migration. If it doesn't migrate your Horde settings, then I'd report that as a bug.

 

[NightMan]

I had an issue last time I migrated Plesk 8.1.1 to 8.6.0 using the GUI based migration manager, it did not restored the address book and signatures from the horde at all. I do not know what caused this, but there are no errors either.

 

[NightMan]

Are you sure the Migration Manager doesn't migrate that then? You can always test a migration. If it doesn't migrate your Horde settings, then I'd report that as a bug.

How do I test a migration?

 

[breun]

You just do the migration and check if everything you expect to be migrated is migrated.

 

[NightMan]

You just do the migration and check if everything you expect to be migrated is migrated.

lol.. I thought there was a way to check the migration with a test run to see all components were included..

Anyway I am doing the migration now and post the result here.

 

[ziba@]

Hi,

It is possible to convert backup format from 7.x to 8.x version.
Utility that does this is placed under PLESK_PRODUCT_DIR/bin and utility name is backupconvert.sh or convert.sh

You can also check third way to transfer accounts between different Plesk versions:
http://download1.swsoft.com/Plesk/Plesk8.6/Doc/en-US/plesk-8.6-unix-backup-restore-guide/25293.htm

 

[NightMan]

now I migrated the server, using the migration manger from PLESK GUI. took long time to complete it. but at the end I got the error msg. the databases cannot be, migrated. I guess this is due the diffrent version of MySql in both servers.

Then I manually dumped all databases and restored them to the new server. all seems to be working so far.