Chapter 6. Using Plesk Migration Manager

This chapter provides you information on how to migrate from competitive control panels to Plesk control panel.

Overview

Plesk Migration Manager is created for easy and fast migration from other, competitive control panels to Plesk, and also for migration from older releases of Plesk and from different platforms of Plesk. At the present moment you can migrate the following platforms to Plesk:

  • Confixx2;

  • older releases of Plesk and other platforms of Plesk - FreeBSD or Linux;

  • Cobalt Raq;

  • cPanel 9.

The Plesk Migration Manager can be accessed by selecting the Server shortcut and clicking the Migration Manager icon on the Server administration page. The Migration Agent Upload page will open. The Migration Manager will guide you through the migration process.

Note: The Migration Manager icon will be disabled, if this feature is not supported by your license key.

Uploading Migration Agent To Remote Host

First, you need to upload the migration agent to the remote host you wish to migrate to Plesk. This can be done on the Migration Agent Upload page. On this page, please, specify the remote control panel parameters:

  • select the platform from which you would like to migrate to Plesk from the Source Platform drop-down box.

  • specify the source host. You can use either the IP address or the domain name of the server you wish to migrate.

  • enter the login. You need to log in as "root".

  • enter the password, used for logging in to the remote host you are migrating.

  • click Next.

The agent will upload to the specified remote host and acquire its status. You will proceed to the progress page where you can view the migration progress and to stop it.

Viewing Information on Source Host

When the migration agent uploads to the remote host, it sends information on this host to your Plesk control panel. This information is displayed on the Information on source host page. On this page, please, select the option you need:

  • clear the Select objects for migration checkbox, if you wish to migrate all objects from the remote host to Plesk.

  • select the Select objects for migration checkbox, if you wish to select certain objects to be migrated from the remote host to Plesk.

  • click Cancel to cancel the migration.

Migrating All Objects

After you cleared the Select objects for migration checkbox, you will proceed to the Downloading remote host content page, where you can view and stop the downloading if desired.

Once the downloading is complete, you will be taken to the IP Mapping page.

IP Mapping

The IP Mapping page displays all IP addresses of the host you are migrating to Plesk and all IP addresses of Plesk you are migrating this host to.

On this page,

  • select the Plesk IP address you want to map the remote host IP addresses to.

    Note: You can map all IP addresses of the remote host only to one Plesk IP address.

  • click Migrate to continue migration or Cancel to cancel the migration.

Viewing Migration Result

When the remote host objects are migrated, you will proceed to the Migration Result page where you can view the migration result. This can be either the message on the succsessful migration or error messages, if any errors occurred during the migration process, and the list of objects that could not be migrated due to the errors occurred.

Click Finish to finish the migration.

Selecting Objects For Migration

After you selected the Select objects for migration checkbox, you will proceed to the Migration Progress page, where you can view migration progress and stop the migration if desired.

After that you will be taken to the Select objects for migration page. On this page, select which objects you wish to be migrated to Plesk:

  • select the Accounts tab and specify which accounts should be migrated by clicking the corresponding checkboxes, then click Migrate.

  • select the Domains tab and specify which domains should be migrated by clicking the corresponding checkboxes, then click Migrate.

  • click Cancel to cancel migration.

Migrating Accounts

After you chose accounts for migration, you will proceed to the Downloading remote host content page, where you can view and stop the downloading if desired.

Once the downloading is complete, you will be taken to the IP Mapping page.

Migrating Domains

After you chose domains for migration, you will be taken to the Select client account for domains migration page.

On this page,

  • select the Plesk client account on which you wish to migrate the selected domains of the remote host.

  • click Migrate to continue migration or Cancel to cancel the migration.

If you decided to continue migration, you will be taken to the IP Mapping page.

IP Mapping

The IP Mapping page displays all IP addresses of the host you are migrating to Plesk and all IP addresses of Plesk you are migrating this host to.

On this page,

  • select the Plesk IP address you want to map the remote host IP addresses to.

    Note: You can map all IP addresses of the remote host only to one Plesk IP address.

  • click Migrate to continue migration or Cancel to cancel the migration.

Viewing Migration Result

When the remote host objects are migrated, you will proceed to the Migration Result page where you can view the migration result. This can be either the message on the succsessful migration or error messages, if any errors occurred during the migration process, and the list of objects that could not be migrated due to the errors occurred.

Click Finish to finish the migration.

Stopping Migration

You can stop migration by clicking Cancel on the Migration Progress, Downloading remote host content or IP Mapping pages. This will take you to the Stop migration process page.

To stop the migration, you need to remove the migration agent from the remote host. Thus, on the Stop migration process page, select the Remove agent checkbox and click OK. You will get back to the Migration Agent Upload page.

If you do not select this checkbox, the migration will not stop and you will return to the previous page.


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