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== Abstract: ==

Safely migrating Plesk, in the event of an ISP change, hardware or OS upgrade involves the use of multiple systems. This procedure applies to you if:

You are running an End of Lifed (EOL) unsupported operating system like RH9, FC1, FC2, FC3, FC4 or FC5

You need to upgrade hardware

You are moving to a different hosting company

You have a badly laid out file system


== Prereqs: ==

1 Plesk Server

1 New Plesk Server

 
'''Step 1) Back up the system'''

[[Ftp backup]]

'''Step X) restore config only'''

'''Step X) fix mailman '''



'''Step X) Plesk Restore'''

Task 1) Prep
 /usr/local/psa/bin/pleskrestore --create-map backup -map map

Task 2) Restore
 /usr/local/psa/bin/pleskrestore --restore backup  -level all  -map map


'''Step X) Surpress email notifications from mailman'''

Mailman will send out notifications to everyone when you migrate, block this short term with firewall rules:

 iptables -I OUTPUT -p tcp --dport 25 -j DROP
 iptables -I OUTPUT -p tcp --dport 465 -j DROP



'''Step X) Testing Checklists'''

Mail

mailing lists

webmail



Web

websites (test for php issues, register_globals)

DNS

did all domains transfer?