Moving accouts to a new server...

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Joris Sewandono

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Hi there,

I've got one old server and 2 new servers

now I want to move accouts to the new servers...
so I go in the reseller panel and go to 'manage backups'

step 1 I sellect the user I want to move
step 2 Now
step 3 FTP with the IP of the new server, user name, paswoord ... all cool and the path I've tried some / or /user_backups or /home/admin/user_backups ...
(note: the directories home/admin/user_backups are already created by DA on both servers)


anyway at the end I always recieve a ticket with:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: ftp_connect() in - on line 12


can someone help me? I can't seem to find the problem
 
Personally I have the experience that doing anything related to backups is a nightmare with DA. My last server migration took hours and the old server only had a few customer accounts on it. I do vaguely have plans for an improved backup/restore mechanism for DA as (commercial) plugin, with the ability to do (useful) backups, restore them, and pack the entire data from one server up to move it to another.
 
Hmm yes abbout 60 accounts
and the workflow per account takes about 'n hour ...

my steps till now...
- via the reseller backup the accout local
- login the reseller account of the new server and restore the backup from the old via the ftp option
- but then the hassle with ns adresses start... the old account has 2 old ns ip's and the new sver has 2 new ns ip's ... :-(

and manualy moving 60 accounts ... by logging in and out pfff hassle

Is there a more easy way?
 
Currently there isn't. However plans are starting to take shape here for an automated backup/restore/migration tool that, unlike sysbk, IS useful.
 
Joris Sewandono said:
Hmm yes abbout 60 accounts
and the workflow per account takes about 'n hour
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We move between ten and 20 domains per hour; sometimes more. I have no idea why it takes you so long.
Is there a more easy way?
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Use the reseller backup.

If you have a shell account don't ftp from the control panel, but instead move all the backups to a temporary directory, tar it up with tar -czvf filename.tar.gz, and ftp it as one tarball.

Then move it into position on the new server and untar it. That's a lot faster.

Jeff
 
JTE said:
Currently there isn't. However plans are starting to take shape here for an automated backup/restore/migration tool that, unlike sysbk, IS useful.
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I seem to recall you once saying that about a billing soluiton. Did you ever complete that?

It's not easy, as you'll find out as you do the study.

Sure it's doable. But it depends where you want to start, and whether you want restores to work on all kinds of systems or just the same version of DA, and the same OS distribution.

For example the Plesk backup. It takes anywhere from one to three hours to do the backup, and it shuts down all services the entire time.

And it can only be restored to a server with the same Plesk and OS level. Restoring takes even longer.

I suppose it's doable; almost anything is doable.

But figuring it all out, and guaranteeing that it'll work on everyone's server... now that's another issue entirely.

Good Luck !

Jeff
 
Currently it's not mutch more than a raw idea. The billing software has much much much higher priority ;) (as a matter of fact, I'm programming on it right now... its 1:33 here, but I don't feel like sleeping)
But after that, I may have a go at a backup tool. I like the idea of having backups, it's just the not being able to restore them in any way close to easy that makes me feel uncomfortable.
 
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