Knowledge Base

Plesk Migration and Transfer Guide

General Information
Planning migration
Preparing servers
Migration pre-check
Migration (data transfer)
Migration post-check
Data synchronization
Switching IP/DNS (moving to production)
Transferring Plesk key from source server
Limitations for migration

General Information

Plesk Migrator is a tool that Plesk provides for migration to the latest Plesk versions.

It has pre- and post-migration checks, error reporting features, allows to re-sync data between an old and a new server after migration to make migration to Plesk an easy process.

Plesk Migrator can be also used for upgrading Plesk to the latest version (Upgrade by transfer): Upgrade by transfer is the process of switching to the latest Plesk version by moving all hosting data and settings from the current Plesk server to a server with the latest version installed. Upgrade by transfer also allows you to minimize the downtime of services on the production server, as websites stay online while the transfer is in progress. During the migration process, data on the source server (Subscriptions', Customers' data, etc) will not be changed or removed as well as all services will be running.

Planning migration

With Plesk Migrator you can:

Migrate to
- Plesk Obsidian

Migrate from
- Via Plesk or command-line interface
  - Plesk 8.6 and later (Linux and Windows)
  - cPanel
  - Confixx 3.3
  - Helm 3.2
  - Plesk Expand 2.3.2
  - Parallels Pro Control Panel for Linux 10.3.6
  - DirectAdmin 1.51 (when migrating from DirectAdmin installed on Ubuntu 10.x, only custom migration is supported)
- Via command-line interface only (for assistance, submit a request to Plesk Professional Services team)
  - Enkompass
  - HDE Controller 6
  - Hosting Controller v7 Panel
  - H-Sphere (both Linux and Windows servers can be migrated)
  - Interworx
  - ISPmanager 4 Pro
  - ISPmanager 5 Business
  - MSPControl (commercial and multi-server WebSitePanel)
  - Parallels Plesk Auto…