Performing Migration

Types of Migration

Migration Manager allows performing the following types of migration:

• Full migration - migrating all user accounts, domains, and objects that can be mapped to Plesk domain and client templates
• Accounts migration - migrating selected user accounts (including all domains registered within those accounts)
• Domains migration - migrating selected domains to the specified Plesk client account

Starting Migration

To start a migration of any type, follow these steps:

1. Access Plesk Migration Manager:
   1. Log in to Plesk as Administrator.
   2. Click the Server shortcut in the navigation pane, and then click Migration Manager located under Services. This opens the first page of Migration Manager wizard:

      

2. Establish connection to the remote host from which you wish to migrate data to your Plesk server:
   1. Enter the remote server name or IP address into the Source host text input field.

      Note: For migration from UNIX-based platforms only, you can indicate a port to be used for SHH connection, for example, 10.64.127.62:8022. If you do not specify the port at this step, port 22 will be used for SHH connection by default.

   2. Enter login and password for logging in to the source host into the corresponding fields.

      Note that the login and password you specify on this step must be credentials of the remote host user account with administrator's privileges.

   3. Select operating system running on the remote host next to OS type.
   4. Click Next>>.

After this, Plesk Migration Manager connects to the specified remote server.

Note: If you are performing migration from control panels other than Plesk, make sure that Migration Agent is installed on the source host (refer to the Preparing For Migration from Other Control Panels section for more information).

If the connection is successfully established, Plesk Migration Manager determines the source hosting platform, the migration starts and you proceed to the next step. On this step, Migration Manager shows the page displaying the source host information and allowing to set up the migration preferences:

Migration Manager provides you with the following information on the selected source host:

• Source hosting platform - hosting platforms supported by Plesk Migration Agent that were detected on the remote host.

  'Hosting platform' here means the way that data related to hosting is organized. If there is HELM installed on the remote server, you always see 2 hosting platforms (Resellers and Users), which conceive two ways of migrating data (mapping HELM Reseller accounts to Plesk Client accounts or HELM User accounts to Plesk Client accounts). If Ensim Pro is installed on the remote server, only one hosting platform (Ensim) is displayed.

• Average CPU load - average CPU usage on the remote host.

  When the source hosting platform is Unix, Average CPU load field will show you three numbers, displaying average CPU load during the last 1, 5 and 15 minutes respectively. If this value is too high, the migration can take longer.

• Operating system - the detailed info on the operating system installed on the remote server.

Plesk Migration Manager allows you to choose between two types of migration: Selective Migration, when only the objects of your selection are migrated, and Full Migration, when all objects are migrated. How to perform migration of each type is described in the following subsections.

Continuing Interrupted Migration Process

The migration process is interrupted if you leave the Migration Manager wizard on any step after the migration has been started before it is completed. You leave the Migration Manager wizard if you go to another Plesk page, log out from Plesk or close your web browser window with Plesk session.

Plesk Migration Manager protects you from losing migration data: if a migration is interrupted, Migration Manager saves all the information on this migration, and will offer you to continue it the next time you access Migration Manager:

To continue the interrupted migration, select the Continue migration option and click OK. Migration Manager will open page of the migration step on which the migration was interrupted.

Stopping Migration

Stopping migration cancels the migration. If you stop the migration, Migration Manager will "forget" about it and won't offer you to continue it.

You can stop migration by clicking Cancel on the following Migration Manager steps:

• Selecting Objects for Migration
• Selecting Target Client Account
• Mapping Remote Host IPs to Existing

Doing this takes you to the Stopping Migration page. Select the Remove archive checkbox to remove any temporary files created during the migration, and click OK.