I just wanted to let you know that i migrated my plesk 5.0.5 server to a plesk 7.1.5 server saturday night. Everything went well. No downtime was experienced(except for ftp).

Just a few details.

I have 31 Clients and 128 domains setup. I started the migration at 8:06, this backing up of the data to copy the data to the new server by the migration manager took 12minutes til 8:18. Copying the data started at this time and completed at 8:37. The long part then started which was the restore on the new server. This took til 9:58.

Then i used a script that was really handy from http://www.atomicrocketturtle.com/modules....33e408ecd9ba90c

Basically this redirects all traffic from the old ips to the new server. So no downtime is encountered. All mail, web, datbase traffic went to the new server. I had a spare ip that i only use for ssh so i did not forward that ip which let me still use ssh on the old server.

The only problem with this script i found was it didnt allow clients to ftp into the server, but i wasnt worried about that. They could use the ip of the new server if they needed to. Then i just changed the ips for the 2 nameservers and everything seems to now be running off the new server. Its great.

Couple of problems.
1/ Not really a problem but the restore did seem to take a while. There wasnt a huge amount of problem with this however.

2/ The catchall/bounce settings were lost for all domains. This was my biggest problem as i had to check each domain manually as i couldnt find an easy way to find out in the plesk database to extract this information (and by this stage i couldnt afford spending more time looking).

3/ Custom dns was not migrated but this wasnt a problem as i knew which domains had custom dns. (only 5 or so).

4/ Seems usernames containing uppercase characters are corrupted and you cant use uppercase characters any more. I have been told some passwords were corrupted too but cant verify this.

The only other thing, which im not sure of, but if i was to do it again i would check the best way to stop the mailserver from recieving mail from the outside for the time the migration took. I did stop qmail but the test messages i sent i never recieved. So there may have been lost mail for those 2 or 3hrs that it was down.

All in all i was very impressed. After research and contemplating for many months about upgrading the control panel then upgrading the os (to redhat es), i have finally done it myself by a migration.

Hope i havent bored you too much.

Lindsay