Backup time

[scottthepotter]

Has anyone ever figured out the 'Scheduled Backup Settings' time/calendar that Plesk has seen fit to implement? This morning (9am on Saturday the 2nd of May), I added a 'Weekly' scheduled backup for Sunday at 1am.. For some reason I notice that server load is above normal and lo and behold I look a couple of hours later and I have a backup that ran as soon as I set the scheduled backup. I guess it is just my 'simple' way of thinking but when I schedule a backup to run at 1am. on Sunday morning, it should run then. I guess it is back to the command line backup and scheduling CRON jobs. This is utterly ridiculous!

 

[Total]

Check to see that your server time is set correctly for your location . then remember 24 hr time so 13 hrs is 1 PM and so on .. Mine in set for 2 hrs and backups correctly at 2 am ..

 

[David Cottle]

Backup time is now local server time. This is not what you set in plesk, rather the default the server uses (timestamps when you create a file).

 

[scottthepotter]

Plesk Panel time is correct, server time (Unix time) agrees with Plesk Panel time.

Backup is set to:
Backup Period - Weekly
Start Backup Creation Time at - 01:00
Every - Sunday
FTP Repository

However the backup actually completed on 10:19am Saturday morning.
What's more Plesk still can't delete the FTP backup so having 'Maximum number of backups' set is fruitless.

 

[Yeolegood]

Hello,

We are aware of the issue reported.
Please refer to this knowledge base article to learn more on how to handle scheduled backup time issues in Plesk 9.0:

http://kb.odin.com/en/6194

 

[scottthepotter]

Thanks for the response, the Knowledgebase article was 'somewhat' helpful. I am a little confused however, the KB article says that this problem has been fixed in Plesk 9.2. And since this is a Plesk 9.2 forum the KB article is a little misleading.