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restoring Plesk 6.x backup on Plesk 8.01?

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rihad

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Our 6.x based server is unusable due to disk errors, so we need to restore its Plesk backup on another 8.01 server (that already has domains - so they will need to kind of coexist). Possible? If yes, how? If not, how can I _do_ it? Thanks.
 
Anyone? I need to do something really soon :( I've found this KB entry regarding how to restore a 7.5 backup on 8.1: http://kb.odin.com/en/1727
So I assume 6.x -> 8.01 jump would be even more hassle? BTW I don't even have the /usr/local/psa/bin/backup-convert utility.
 
Trying to restore the 6.x backup gives this error:
# /usr/local/psa/bin/pleskrestore --restore /var/local/backup.lkg -level all -verbose
Required option "-map <file>" is not set
#
I'm missing this file on the original server! How can I recreate it, albeit manually? In what kind of format is it? Thanks for any tips in advance.

OS: Debian 3.1
Plesk: 8.01
 
OK, this is how a mapfile must be created:
# /usr/local/psa/bin/pleskrestore --create-map /var/local/backup.lkg -map map
The document has the wrong type, root node is <psa>, but <migration-dump> was expected

There seems to be a problem working with 6.x backups :( Isn't there a workaround? Like unpacking the archive and importing it manually?
 
OK, to cut the long story short: I've managed to copy (most part of) the bad disk to a new one and boot. Everything seems to start up fine (Apache, MySQL, Qmail, ...). But some domains are fully or partially missing some data. So I wanted to restore it from backup. Alas...
# /usr/local/psa/bin/psarestore
Can't locate BU/Init.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/local/psa/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/i386-freebsd /usr/local/psa/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/i386-freebsd /usr/local/psa/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005 /usr/local/psa/lib/perl5/5.00503/i386-freebsd /usr/local/psa/lib/perl5/5.00503 /usr/local/psa/lib/perl5 . /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/i386-freebsd /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005 . /usr/libdata/perl/5.00503/mach /usr/libdata/perl/5.00503) at /usr/local/psa/lib/perl5/BU/PSA/Const.pm line 8.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/local/psa/lib/perl5/BU/PSA/Const.pm line 8.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/local/psa/bin/psarestore line 40.
There's indeed no /usr/local/psa/lib/perl5/BU/PSA/Init.pm
Please advise to me where to get one.
 
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