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  1. L. Hagen

    Question How to Download latest Backup via FTP

    Hi, in "Tools & Settings -> Backup Manager" I can download a full backup and can also setup "Remote Storage Settings". But I'm wondering if it's possible to access Plesk via SFTP from the Internet to download a full backup too? I would like to create a small backup job on my local NAS that...
  2. C

    Issue Errors with Plesk scheduled backups

    Hi, we are experiencing some problems with scheduled backups in Plesk "Backup Manager". Backups seem to be created because they have beside this green tick icon, but every backup ends with a message in red. I will use for the following examples the backups from 03/25 and 03/26. Until yesterday...
  3. Z

    Question automate the creation of dumps for select databases

    hello, hope everyone is doing well. I want to automate the creation of dumps for select databases. then download it to an FTP server. I tried to look for the commands needed to achieve this so then I write a script and configure a Cron job with it but couldn't find it.
  4. N

    Resolved Add FTP location for backup error

    Hi, when i try to add a FTP location for backup i have this error
  5. E

    Question WPTookit Backup upload to remote FTPS storage

    hello all, we use wp-toolkit backups quite often in addition to regular scheduled plesk backups, which are set to use remote FTPS storage only. space gets filled up after a while by wptoolkit backups, unnecessarily inflating the domain backup size as well as taking up precious ssd space. is...
  6. D

    Issue Scheduled backups to FTP server don't work

    Hello everyone, At work we have a dedicated server with a remote FTP server. We configured the backups to be stored on that remote FTP server. It was working fine since we configured it however 2 days ago the backups started to fail. 3 days ago the remote ftp server reached the 500gb limit and...
  7. P

    Issue Unable to set up Remote Storage Settings

    I'm new in this community but not new to Plesk. I manage 4 servers equipped with Plesk Obsidian. All servers are configured to make backup in a remote FTP storage. I've activated a new server and configuring backup to the same FTP storage, i receive an error. Trying the direct curl command from...
  8. G

    Question when I run incremental backups from the command line they are not linked to the main backup

    hi, as per the title when I perform a command line backup on my ftp storage (I made a script to perform backups every hour) plesk does not connect the incremental backups to the main backup as you see initial backup ("Backup iniziale") is marked 0B obviously I'm following the logic of filenames...
  9. C

    Issue FTP(S) Backups slow as molasses

    Hi! Currently I have an issue on only one instance of my Plesk infrastructure. I've even gone to the extremes of rebuilding the whole setup, Plesk + FTP servers. Same issues after rebuilds. Backups to a remote FTP(S) store takes forever to complete. A full server backup of 61.9 GB takes 12...
  10. Endre

    Resolved Creating FTP storage to use as remote backup location for another server

    Is it possible to set up FTP storage on Plesk to use as remote backup location for another server? I have one VPS at DigitalOcean's datacenter in Frankfurt and another at Aruba Cloud datacenter in Poland. Both VPS run Plesk Obsidian. I want to create remote backup location for each server on the...
  11. D

    Resolved Can't access remote FTPS

    Hello, I'm using plesk since an year now, and I'm migrating my VPS on a new server (from debian 8 with plesk 18.0.28 to debian 10 with plesk 18.0.35) Migration worked great but I'm not able to set up my remote backup: this is the error I've: > Error: Unable to access the storage: Transport...
  12. ShyamM

    Resolved Incremental Remote FTP Backup & MySQL

    Hi, Where can I find daily DB dumps if the incremental backups are stored in a remote FTP server ? I can find it under /var/lib/psa/dumps/domains/website.com/databases/ when the incremental backups are stored locally. Once we switch to incremental + remote, I can no longer locate the DB...
  13. H

    Issue Hourly backup to FTPS

    Hi, I am trying to configure hourly backup to FTPS with scheduled tasks in Plesk. It works fine in backup manager, but not as a scheduled task. I've followed this and this guide. Also read a bit here about it. Error log: Task "/usr/local/psa/bin/pleskbackup --server...
  14. P

    Resolved Specific port number for FTP backup storage

    Hello How can I specify a port number different than the default port for my backup FTP server? See form here : Outils & Paramètres > Gestionnaire de sauvegardes > Paramètres du stockage distant > FTP (Tools & Settings > Backup manager > Distant storage settings > FTP) URL ...
  15. Julian Johannsen

    Resolved Upload of Backup not visible in Backupmanager

    Dear Pleskians, we have a backup of a older Onxy server, The backup size is over 9 GB. A upload via browser is not possible, Now we uploaded the file with ftp to /var/libs/psa/dumbs, but the backup is not visible in our backupmanager. Where is the problem? We tried severel solutions, e.a...
  16. Grzegorz Doleczek

    Resolved FTP Backup reupload on failed backup

    Hi, I have strange problem with Plesk, when I do server back my server often alerts me about failed backup upload. Local backup is made correctly, and I can recover from it, but when I check my FTP server for files I see files that are 0 bytes, like something failed during compresion. I have...
  17. A

    Issue Scheduled backup via FTP - error message even when successful

    TITLE: Scheduled backup via FTP - error message PRODUCT, VERSION, OPERATING SYSTEM, ARCHITECTURE: Plesk 17.5, CentOs 7.3 PROBLEM DESCRIPTION: All of my Scheduled backup using FTP report an error each time they're being executed: Unable to access to the storage: Transport error: unable to list...
  18. Lux

    Resolved [PPPM-6236] Distant backup fails because of space in directory name

    Hey, I'm trying to setup FTP backups on my local NAS, but registering the credentials fails with the error : When I enter the CURL command in CLI, it works just fine, check0 and check1 directories have been created on the NAS. But - seemingly because of the space in "Disque dur" (which I...
  19. Kingsley

    Question backup server for plesk

    Hello; I want to setup a backup server. i am kinda confused how the setup will be made. here is what i understand. OR do i need to add the backupsy agent to my server with plesk installed? as stated here Initial Setup Guide - Knowledgebase - Backupsy Please if you have any idea share with me.
  20. A

    Question FTP Backup

    Hello everyone, I'm new to Plesk, this question is from a newbie I heard that the backup module in Plesk is not well designed. You can't upload backup files that are >2Gb. Does this apply to FTP repository? what will happen if my backup file is 250Gb big? Thank you!
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