Migrating Domain And Client Accounts

Operator: <migration>

XML Schema: migration_input.xsd, migration_output.xsd, plesk_migration.xsd

Plesk version: Plesk 8.0 for Unix and later | Plesk 8.3 for Windows and later

API RPC version: 1.4.0.0 and higher

Plesk user: Plesk Administrator

Description

Plesk for Unix provides Plesk Migration Manager tool capable of transferring client and domain accounts (including related resources, namely, databases used on domains) from one Plesk server (source server) to another (destination server). Migration is a process of such client/ domain transfer.

Plesk for Windows Migration Manager allows migrating hosting data not only from Plesk for Unix and Plesk for Windows servers, but also from other hosting control panels. For information on Plesk for Windows migration specifics and PMM functionality, refer to the Plesk for Windows Migration Manager Administrator's Guide which is available at the Parallels Plesk Documentation Page. The current document covers only Plesk application programming interface to the Plesk Migration Manager.

Migrations are always processed by destination Plesk servers, namely, by Plesk servers to which client or domain accounts are transferred. Therefore, all the migration request packets are sent to the destination Plesk server.

Important: It is important for performing any operation with the migration operator that Plesk Migration Manager is installed on the destination Plesk server.

Two types of migration are supported by Plesk API RPC, they are Domain Migration and Client Migration. The difference is as follows:

Supported operations:

• START starts migration of particular client or domain accounts from specified source Plesk server to specified target Plesk server.
• FINISH stops the migration defined by ID.
• GET_FS retrieves information on file system on the specified host (may be important for defining source and destination host directories in request packet starting migration).
• GET_STATUS retrieves the current status of the migration defined by ID.
• CHECK checks whether Plesk Migration Manager is installed on Plesk server.