Plesk Backups

How to take them

Go to the following area for domain level backups to do a manual one:

• Domains
• pick a domain
• Manage hosting
• Websites and Domains tab
• Backup Manager (*)
• Backup
• Select Domain Configuration and Content
• Click OK

To set them up automatically (Scheduled Backup Settings) go to:

• Star/asterix above
• Scheduled Backup Settings
• Activate this backup task
• Set the time you want it to run
• Set "Maximum number of backups in repository" to 10
• Untick "Suspend domain until backup task is completed"
• Click OK

To do server level domain backups, go to:

• Home Page of Plesk
• Sever Management - Tools & Settings
• Tools & Resources
• Backup Manager

Use the same settings as the domain level backups.

For this server level backup there are also different Backup Settings under Tools & Resources.

Plesk 10

Manual or Scheduled

Backup via SSH:

cd /usr/local/psa/bin
pleskbackup --help

Restore

Restore: http://myhosting.com/kb/How_to_use_the_Backup_Manager_in_Plesk_10
Restore via SSH:

cd /usr/local/psa/bin
backuprestore --help

Advanced/Alternate Guide

Alternate guide: http://myhosting.com/kb/How_to_use_the_Backup_Manager_in_Plesk_10

Plesk 9 Manual Backup

Current Backup Tasks do not finish

In SSH do ps aux | grep backup and then kill the processes running from the start date, normally the eighth/column value below:

root 19665 0.0 0.6 70024 25332 ? S Jul13

July 13th in this case.

Then do /opt/psa/admin/sbin/backupmng enable

Domain restore fails

If you have created a domain backup and when attempting to restore receive an error along the lines of"Unable to restore as mail accounts, databases and ftp user still exist" create a backup on Virtuozzo to ensure no data loss. You will need to remove all content except the domain itself then restore the backup.

SSH access is under Domain > Control Panel > Websites and Domains tab > Show advanced operations > SSH/Shell access

Limit Disk Space usage

To prevent backup processes from consuming all available disk space, edit /opt/psa/admin/share/pmmcli/pmmcli-rc

Linux location

/var/lib/psa/dumps/

Windows location

To be updated

C:\Backup\Parallels\Plesk
C:\Program Files (x86)\Parallels\Plesk\Backup