I am having trouble with pleskrestore on Plesk 10.4.1, CentOS 5. I have 6 files I created (also in Plesk 10.4.1) with pleskbackup, split into 4GB:Here is what I used ...$ /usr/local/psa/bin/pleskbackup --server --output file=ftp://user:pass@domain.com/colossus729_split_0 --split=4G... to make these files:colossus729_split   colossus729_split.001   colossus729_split.002   colossus729_split.003   colossus729_split.004  colossus729_split.005 But plesk restore wouldnt work with those files (contrary to the documentation)# /usr/local/psa/bin/pleskrestore --restore colossus729_split -level server -licenseand get this error:The file you are trying to upload is not a valid backup file
Trouble with pleskrestore The file you are trying to upload is not a valid backup file
linux;plesk
So tried to do all this with the documentation, but it is lacking in detail and accuracy. Plus, all the error messages their applications return are worthless.Oh, and I have to say that this is the last time I embark on a project with Plesk.Instead, my support folks had to unpack (untar?) the files so I could access this XML file. backup_info_1112070810.xmlThis information is not included ANYWHERE in the Plesk documentation FYI.But I still got errors# /usr/local/psa/bin/pleskrestore --restore backup_info_1112070810.xml -level server -license -map map_fileBackup file has wrong formatDump has critical errors.Then I had to create a map file (even though Plesks documentation implies it is only required for Plesk 8.6 and 9 (Linux): http://kb.parallels.com/6164# /usr/local/psa/bin/pleskrestore --create-map backup_info_1112070810.xml -map map_fileBut I still got errors. Starting to see a trend.Upon validating the file I realized it had errors so I had to manually add 2 other IP addresses to Plesk# /usr/local/psa/bin/pleskrestore --validate-map map_fileDid it like this:123.123.123.xx/255.255.255.0123.123.123.xx/255.255.255.0Then the map file validated:# /usr/local/psa/bin/pleskrestore --validate-map map_fileBut still got the same error message when I tried to restore# /usr/local/psa/bin/pleskrestore --restore backup_info_1112070810.xml -level server -license -map map_fileBackup file has wrong formatDump has critical errors.Finding this post: http://forum.parallels.com/showthread.php?t=109694 I decided to attempt to upgrade Plesk from 10.2 to 10.3.1, then to 10.4.4 ( I originally had 10.4.1). After that was complete I ran this and everything restored. It took at least 10 hours for 150 domains and 24GBs# /usr/local/psa/bin/pleskrestore --restore backup_info_1112070810.xml -level server -license -map map_fileFinally, after all the clients and domains and data showed up I realized that I still had the following problems, thanks again to Plesk:Unlike the previous install of Plesk, which had PHP 5.3, this restore defaulted to 5.1, which caused many a site to break. Fixed by installing PHP53 (using official Plesk source) and the autoinstaller$ /usr/local/psa/admin/sbin/autoinstallerI had made fixes to my previous php.ini file. Plesk did not restore. Namely the problem with timezone support. Fixed by adding the following and restarting httpd.date.timezone = America/New_YorkCould not access Plesk after restore, kept getting 404s. Solved by disabling SSO.All service plans were set to defaults. Annoying.Last but not least by a long shot (at least for now). When I restored domains I found they had been given the wrong owner. Users files were owned by the wrong user. Terrible, Plesk, really terrible. Had to do recursive chown within httpdocs to give files the right owners.$ chown -R user:group *