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Backup disk space

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jpwdesigns

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I'm having trouble with 9.3 backups filling up my free diskspace.

When backing up it backs up each domain inside /var/lib/psa/dumps/clients/here... and then duplicates it in a tgz file here /var/lib/psa/dumps/here...

I have about 55% free of my had drive but because it stores the files twice the server disk space gets full 100% before the backup can finish. This obviously makes it impossible to backup using psabackup.

Why does it behave this way? Is there a way to initiate a server wide backup and not have my more than have free disk space used up?

Any suggestions are appreciated.
 
By default, pleskbackup stores backups in Plesk backup repository located on the Plesk server (/var/lib/psa/dumps/ folder in Plesk for Linux/Unix and %plesk_dir%\Backup\ in Plesk for Windows).
Plesk is capable of exporting the created backup as a single file (.tar on Unix and .zip on Windows) in one of the following ways:

* to stdout
* to local file system
* to FTP server

For export backup as a single file you should use the --output-file option. After a backup is exported, pleskbackup removes it from the Plesk backup repository.
Path to Plesk backup repository can be changed here:

# cat /etc/psa/psa.conf | grep dumps
DUMP_D /var/lib/psa/dumps

Or use this workaround.
 
I cant see how that answer is a solution. It still will create at some point 2 copys of the domains. I already explained that above. Whether it creates the second copy as a single file or not doesn't seem to mater because it copies first everything in individual folders then will put it in one archive file for stdout. Am I missing something here?

J
 
Same problem here. Furthermore, no way to exclude subdomains from backup

I have the same problem as explained by jpwdesigns. The filesystem of my virtual server is 30 GB large and is about 60% full using 2 subdomains. As soon as a backup is created, the filesystem fills up and the system chokes on large temporary files under /var/lib/psa/dumps/clients/<client>/domains/<domain>/phosting/subdomains/<subdomain>.

This is a real nuisance, seemingly I am not able to exclude subdomains from the scheduled backups.
 
Same problem here.

I have a 120GB domain; only 40GB left space on the hard disk leaving be unable to back it up using Plesk Backup. Very frustrating.

Plesk need to create a solution whereby you can specify a segment size for the backup; e.g. 20GB.
So 20GB of your domain is first packed into an archive; then sent to the external FTP server; then deleted; and then the next 20GB is tarred up and so on.
 
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