Backup loop after disk full. Manually remove backup job from shell?

[thomasj@]

Hi!

It seems like i am stuck in a backup loop of some sort. Long story short... Disk went full after backup did not remove the previous backup.

Now the backup runs continuously and i can not reach "Backup" under "Clients" where the backup is handled. I suspect something went corrupt when disk got full. When i click "Clinents" --> "my client" to get to backup settings it says that "Plesk diagnostics
Problems found:
The SMTP server service is switched off.
Solutions:
Restart the SMTP server service."

If i click to restart the service i get

"The service is not available now.
Some Container resources are overused. Click to see the details."

How can i reach my client? How can i disable the backup without going via the Plesk interface? Where are the backups scheduled? I have access via SSH.

I run Plesk 8.3.0 on CentOS 5

 

[thomasj@]

Ever so often... if you give it some time you will solve it.

Emptied the following directories completely and after that i managed to get in to the Clients area and switch of the backup.

/var/lib/psa/dumps/1 and /var/lib/psa/dumps/tmp

 

[tiramisu_]

information where Plesk stores its files you may find at /etc/psa/psa.conf file.

and usually, /var/lib/psa/dumps/ dir is for local backups.

also backup sessions are stored at Plesk databases, you may check it with 'mysql -uadmin -p_plesk_pass_'

table BackupsRunning