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If you want to change the settings for recursive domain name service:

Go to Home > DNS Settings (in the Server group) > DNS Recursion.

Select the option you need:
* To allow recursive queries from all hosts, select Allow for all requests.
* To allow recursive queries from your own server and hosts from your network, select Allow for local requests only.
* To allow recursive queries only from your own server, select Deny.
Click OK.

To view the IP addresses you have at your disposal:

Go to Home > IP Addresses (in the Server group).

To add a new IP address to the server:

Go to Home > IP Addresses (in the Server group) and click Add IP Address.

To remove an IP address from the server:

Go to Home > IP Addresses (in the Server group).
Select the respective check box and click Remove, confirm removal and click OK.

To assign an IP address to a user:

Go to Home > IP Addresses (in the Server group) and click the respective number in the Clients column, then click Assign.
Select the user account you need and click OK.

Select the network interface for the new IP from the Interface drop-down box. All network cards installed on your server are shown in this drop-down box.

To change an IP address allocation type (shared, exclusive) or assign another SSL certificate to an IP address:

Go to Home > IP Addresses (in the Server group) and click the IP address you need.
Select the IP address allocation type and SSL certificate you need, and click OK.

When you obtain a new IP address that you would like to use on the server, you should add the address through the control panel, as Parallels Plesk Panel might not recognize manual modifications you make to the network configuration files.

With Parallels Plesk Panel you can mark all your IP addresses as shared or dedicated before you assign them to your customers. This allows the control panel to distinguish between them and not to let you assign a dedicated IP address to several customers at once. A dedicated IP address can be assigned to a single customer, while a shared IP address can be shared among several user accounts.

Configuring Global Backup Settings in Plesk

If you serve numerous Web sites, you may want to configure the backing up process so that it does not consume much server resources.

To reduce the server load and set the disk space usage policy:

1. Go to Home > Server group title menu > Backup Settings.
2. Specify the number of simultaneous backup processes in the Maximum number of simultaneously running scheduled backup processes box. The default value is 10. Type a lesser value.

3. Select the Run scheduled backup processes with low priority check box.
4. Select the Do not compress backup files check box to disable compression.
5. Click OK.

6. To prevent the backing up processes from consuming all available disk space on the server, do the following:
1. Access the server’s file system, locate and open the file [Parallels Plesk Panel installation directory]/admin/share/pmmcli/pmmcli-rc with a text editor.
2. Locate in this file the line FREE_DISK_SPACE 20, and in place of 20, specify the amount of free disk space in megabytes that must be reserved.
3. Save the file.

Doc Source: parallels.com/Plesk/

Plesk Panel Importing Data From Linux/Unix-based Servers

To transfer your data using the data import function:

1. Locate the following folders on your Parallels Plesk Panel 9 server, and copy all files from them to a single directory on the server, from which you want to transfer data.

On Linux/Unix platforms, you need to copy all files from the following folders:

2. On the source server, run the PleskX.pl utility with the appropriate command line options:

To make a copy of all data, issue the command

Once all the required files are created, open the file content-list.xml to see what files were created. Move all these files, including dump.xml, to the destination server.
In a Web browser, log in as administrator to your Parallels Plesk Panel, go to Home > Migration Manager (in the Help & Support group), and then click Start Migration.
Select the option Transfer data already processed by the migration agent and located on the local host.
In the Migration data file location box, type the path to the directory where you saved the data. Click Next >>.

Transferring User Accounts, Domain Names and Web Sites to Plesk Panel

You can transfer data (user accounts, settings, Web sites and e-mail) to your Parallels Plesk Panel from other hosting servers managed by earlier versions of Parallels Plesk Panel or other Web hosting software.

Data transfers from Windows-based servers to Linux/Unix-based servers are not supported by the Migration Manager function available from the Parallels Plesk Panel; however, you can transfer data from a Windows-based server to a Linux/Unix-based server by backing up data on a source server and then restoring them on the destination server using the command line backup and restore utilities.

Go to Home > Migration Manager (in the Help & Support group).
To check if there are any updates for Migration Manager components, click Synchronize. These updates may include files of migration agents that enable support for transferring data from hosting platforms other than Parallels Plesk Panel.

Click Start New Migration.
Leave the Transfer data from another server option selected, and specify the following options:

The source server’s address. Specify either the IP address or the host name of the server, from which you want to transfer data.
The login name and password used for logging in to the source server.

Select the type of operating system running on the source host. (This option is available if you are using Parallels Plesk Panel 9 for Windows hosting platform.)
Specify the path to the directory where temporary files will be stored.

Specify whether you want to transfer all data related to user accounts and domains from the source server, or only specific items.

Select the data compression option, if you pay per the amount of transferred data, or if you want to save bandwidth. Data compression saves bandwidth, but consumes more disk space.
Click Next>>. The migration manager will connect to the specified server and gather information about the business objects of the source hosting platform.

If you are transferring data from hosting platforms other than Parallels Plesk Panel, select the version of the migration agent that must be used and then click Next >>. Parallels Plesk Panel automatically selects the appropriate agent version; however, if data transfer fails, you can try selecting another version of migration agent.

Source : parallels.com/Plesk/