ISPconfig migration tool?

Hey there,
I saw this tool by pure accident. I think it suits my needs for this week as one of my servers is compromized and I wasnt to migrate around 50 websites to 2 other servers I own. I want to ask a few questions, I can understand the obvious backup it does, but I want to verify/clarify a few things.

Backs up the whole account of a user, meaning: Control panel account, websites with their statistics, (DNSs?), Databases and dbusers, mail servers and email accounts (and their /var/vmail/maildir emails?).
Can I select which control panel accounts it will backup and prime for migration? Maybe I want to select 2 now, 5 tomorrow, etc? Also the target ISPconfig3 can accept multiple occurences of restores from different panels, meaning it's not a one use thingy on the target? E.g. I restored 2 clients from server 1 today and 5 clients from server 2 tomorrow.

Or if there is a detailed info on what it does or doesn't, please point me in the right direction.
PS this will only be used for<=>to ISPconfig 3 panels.

Hyped for it.

 

Aaah, i get it now. It's a "server as a whole" migration tool. This still might be convinient in my case. I can exclude some clients by deleting them prior to the migration.
A few more questions.
1) Does the target server need to be blank?
2) The target server is older or newer version of ispconfig 3 version than the source, does it matter?
3) Does it migrate the /var/vmail/maildir contents of the email accounts too?
4) How usable are the websites after migration? I mean most of the time the websites are some sort of dynamic php, joomla, wordpress etc. Their config file asks a minimum of the user/name/pass of the database. Is this taken under consideration so the backup/restore tries to keep the same user/name/pass in mysql or I'll have to dig in manually after the migration?
5) Does it take care of DNS records also? If it does, does it do it blindly? like if the IP of the original server is included in some records does it take that into consideration and change each IP address that is from the old to the new server?
I know I'm getting greedy, if 1,2,3 works the rest I can do manually but still valid questions.

 

So satisflying answers. I'll buy this today, work until the end of the week and avoid myself a stroke or heart attack by the client pressure Thanks.

 

End of the week... nope, I'm done.

Ok, all worked almost perfect. I did encounter 3 errors in total, during the creation of the clients. It was too late so I didn't waste time on checking why, just moved those 3 clients manually, then deleted them from the source server. I didn't trust my phpmyadmin skills late at night, so i went and changed manually the DNS settings. Migration took around 1/2 hour where the servers where like my slaves, so while I was watching the progress on one screen I relaxed by playing Overwatch on another! I need some sleep but I dont need to waste any more labor hours on it anymore
The whole interraction took me around 1 hour, coz I had to move those 3 clients manually and change DNS manually, but that's on me. The automation took less, like 30mins tops, where you can see the data flying from one server to the other. I also had to go on my domains provider to change name servers, took around 45mins.

I'm writting this as a feedback to all potential buyers of this addon, it works, it's easy and saves you loads of time, also if it works it works, no typos, no human error. Worth every penny.
Thank you.

 

VAT ID might be the issue, coz all I do I usually do the same way for all my clients, no templates, no funny things. But yea I fill in the details depending on what client information I have at the moment I create the account.
Thanks for the reply.

 

Till,
Speaking of migration scripts, is there any progress on a single system migration script that will allow moving users,mail, and websites around on a single instance of ISPConfig? Would be really handy for a large multi-server system.

Thanks!

 

Hi. I am also desperate for a version of this script that can do it site by site. Is there any plans for this to be added or shall I just write it myself? Don't want to waste time if its going to come out soon.

Or if I buy the addon will I be able to modify the code to do this? Or is it all locked behind ioncube loader? cheers

 

Hiya, yeah I have a multiserver setup, 1 master and about 10 slaves. So I want to be able to click a button and move a site from Server A to Server B. Currently we just do this manually which takes a lot of time, creating accounts and moving data.

 

Oh cool, hyped about that tool!

 

This is a long needed addition.
I'm happy I found this comment before staring the same work. I'm wondering if you have an ETA and if it would be possible to participate in the development (either coding or testing).
Thank you.
ispcomm

 

I understand what you mean. Implementing a generic framework for every object will take time. You'll probably need a "rollback" mechanism to undo partially executed "batches" after they fail for whatever reason and this may not be simple.

My idea was much simpler (although limited to sites and mail domains). What I had in mind was to make an "archive" of a site, including accounts, databases, passwords and files and "zip" everything in a single file that could be copied to another server and "imported" there, either via gui, or more feasibly via shell like this: export sitexyz <outfile> -> rsync to the other server -> import <infile>. This could be easily scripted from the master server with the only requirement of a password-less ssh login from the master to all slaves.

I started a proof of concept php script a few years back but then never finished it. In my prototype, a single tar file contained a one text (json) file describing all accounts (ftp, database, passwords etc) and one file per "object" where "object" : <database>|<site archive>|<logs>|...

Sorry for steering the thread.

I'll be looking forward for your announcements and will try to help as much as i can.

 

Till, I'd like to have an update on the status of this "migration" project. Is there anything I can do to make it happen ? Perhaps coding too. You know I've done some things in ispconfig in the past. Perhaps we can join forces.