How to restore plesk 8 backup on plesk 9 server
Copy backup to plesk9 server and run:
/usr/local/psa/bin/pre9-backup-convert -v convert -d /var/lib/psa/dumps/ /root/plesk8-backup-file
then go to plesk 9 panel and restore the backup from the client and/or precreated domain.
October 8th, 2009 at 2:05 pm
Early Plesk 9 did not ship with migration manager so I had to use this when migrating sites from a Plesk 8 server to a Plesk 9 server. It worked fine.
January 19th, 2010 at 10:19 am
Thanks for this, work fine for me, plesk 8 backups restored in plesk 9 without problems.
Thanks for sharing this.
February 2nd, 2010 at 6:48 am
Hi thanks for this code man but tell is it i need shell access for this or there is any other method to run this thing.
February 2nd, 2010 at 11:20 am
Hi,
Unfortunately you can’t do that without shell access . you can ask your hosting provider to do that for you (it’s quite easy) as well as you can install a plesk9 in a vmware linux machine (I will not need a license) and copy your backups there , convert them and then upload to your plesk9 account.
May 8th, 2010 at 3:36 am
how if I wish to downgrade? I want to move my backup file from Plesk 9 and restore in Plesk 8… .any possibility?
I got an invalid backup file, not recognize nor able to restore… by plesk 8.
Please help, I hat Plesk 9 which always Hanging … plesk 8 work pretty good.
mKHMER
May 10th, 2010 at 1:30 pm
hello,
there is no need to downgrade plesk9 to plesk8 . plesk9 is working well , maybe it uses a bit more memory but it is fine. what exactly hangs on your plesk?
so, as far as I know you can’t convert plesk9 backup to plesk8 backup (see http://forum.parallels.com/showthread.php?t=91028).
also when you upgrade to plesk 9 your plesk license automatically upgrades to plesk9 license (same for plesk 9.5 , last version) and maybe only your provider can roll back you license.
August 15th, 2010 at 5:12 pm
Hi,
thanks for this advice. This really helped me and saved hours of time.
Jos