Migrating from Plesk Discussion

Any update on this script ? I have a plesk 8.6 server that had been great to migrate to DA

It it possible to gather the email passwords from Plesk in cleartext so I could manually type them in on the new server ? If that it possible I could do it all manually since I only got around 100 accounts to convert.
 
You could ask on a Plesk forum to find out whether or not Plesk stores any passwords in plaintext. Linux and Unix do not.

Jeff
 
Glad my question could start such a productive ball rolling :)

We are now in the process of setting up secondary servers in a second Data Center to mirror our existing servers. More than ever I would like to convert all machines to DA, but I lack the knowledge necessary to do so. These conversions would be clean installs with no previous domains/users, so what is being described here would most likely be very helpful.

Thanks! Look forward to seeing if this becomes a reality.
 
Wow!! - I could sure use a Plesk 8.X to DirectAdmin migration script right about now. I am about to take over 5 Plesk servers loaded with 200 websites each and they work fine but they sure are a lot of work as compared to my good old trusted DirectAdmin servers.

I manually did a big Plesk to DirectAdmin Migration in 2005 and it nearly killed me - how can Plesk make things so complicated and pretend it is good for you? The move/migration was worth the effort - I went from a state of constant worry and over work to relaxing without any of those Plesk related headaches haunting me 24 hours a day. It was as liberating as moving from Modernbill to WHMCS.

Please somebody get this done - a legion of trapped Plesk users would thank you for ever if there was a clean move script from Plesk to DirectAdmin. I'd pay money for it.

Earendil please share that code with John at DirectAdmin so that you don't need to support it. I am sure John can take whatever you've done, rationalize it and pump out a great migration script for everyone's benefit.
 
Currently Plesk->cPanel->DirectAdmin is the easiest way to do the migration :)
 
smtalk,

please explain in detail. I imagine cPanel has an import script from Plesk but does DirectAdmin have an import script from cPanel? I don't have a cPanel server handy to act as the intermediate medium.
 
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Hi SMtalk,.

Man,. how come I never thought of that method. Great thinking.

What tool are you using to convert Plesk to Cpanel ?

Thanks :)
 
WHM has an integrated "Copy multiple accounts/packages from another server" tool which lets you select Plesk. If you do not have a cPanel server, I can do the conversation and send you DirectAdmin-ready backups.
 
smtalk,

are you still interested in helping by converting Plesk 9.5 sites to a Directadmin backup format? That would be awesome. The Directadmin backups restore so nicely.

Please contact me ASAP - I have inherited several Plesk servers and want to convert them all to DirectAdmin.

I don't mind paying for the service. It would save me untold hours of manual, brow sweating, labor.
 
gerrybakker said:
smtalk,

are you still interested in helping by converting Plesk 9.5 sites to a Directadmin backup format? That would be awesome. The Directadmin backups restore so nicely.

Please contact me ASAP - I have inherited several Plesk servers and want to convert them all to DirectAdmin.

I don't mind paying for the service. It would save me untold hours of manual, brow sweating, labor.
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We recently did some plesk to DA migrations. It took some time but we got it down, if you need a hand, contact me.
 
I've deleted jkdsfww's post; it's probably spam, though if it is it was probably done manually.

Jeff
 
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