Cronjob to backup email on one domain

[JeffreyZ]

Seems if I want to back up a domain's emails to a remote server (3x a week) I might be able to accomplish that with a Scheduled Task / Cronjob? I have a weekly full domain backup from the Plesk scheduled backup. But I can only set one backup per client. So I'd like to backup email separately, several times a week.

I found this:

# /usr/local/psa/bin/pleskbackup –domains-name yourdomain.com –only-mail -v

But I'm looking to send to a remote FTP repository. Can it be done with "Scheduled Task"?

 

[IgorG]

Use FTP options for /usr/local/psa/bin/pleskbackup if you need to use FTP repository (more details in /usr/local/psa/bin/pleskbackup --help).
And yes, you can use Scheduled Task for this command.

 

[JeffreyZ]

Thanks for your help Igor.

I'm getting an error
error: Can't upload file 'clients/xyz/domains/xyz.com/xyz.com_info_1410301244.xml' to ftp. Error code: 1
Runtime error: The backup failed with errors!

I don't know what error code 1 means and don't know where to look for a log file. Maybe the error is: can't connect to backup server? I was able to ping the server.

Format I used for my backup:
/usr/local/psa/bin/pleskbackup domains-name clientDomain.com --only-mail --prefix=XYZ --backup-password=1some2pass3 --output-file=ftp://<login>:<password>@<server>/<filepath>

 

[UFHH01]

You could try your command in passive mode ( string: "--ftp-passive-mode" ), to avoid connection issues.


You could as well use "rsync" and "ssh", if you would like to backup files/folders from server to server - you will find several work-arounds and tutorials using the search - string:

"rsync" "server to server"​

 

[JeffreyZ]

Thank you for that info. I tried the passive mode. Same result. I don't think Rsync is an option with my 3rd party data storage provider. Any idea where I'd find the error log?

 

[UFHH01]

Command:

locate psadump.log​

... will print out the path for the specific logs.

 

[JeffreyZ]

Thank you!! I see it was a "couldn't connect to server" error. So I tried a test on a different server and was successful.

 

[IgorG]

Are you sure that port 21 is not firewalled there?

 

[JeffreyZ]

They specify that I use port 21 in their documentation. I am able to backup to this same account using Plesk Backup Manager.

the error portion of the migration log:

INFO: The return code was
No output on STDOUT were performed by the utility
No output on STDERR were performed by the utility
[2014-10-30 14:52:18.351| 1901] INFO: ENV[LANG]=en_US.UTF-8
[2014-10-30 14:52:18.351| 1901] INFO: Executing utility: /usr/local/psa/admin/sbin/backup_sign --sign-dump /usr/local/psa/PMM/tmp/backupSDOBlx/clientdomainfolder --session-path=/usr/local/psa/PMM/sessions/2014-10-30-145215.970
[2014-10-30 14:52:18.364| 1906] INFO: backup_sign started : /usr/local/psa/admin/sbin/backup_sign --sign-dump /usr/local/psa/PMM/tmp/backupSDOBlx/clientdomainfolder --session-path=/usr/local/psa/PMM/sessions/2014-10-30-145215.970
[2014-10-30 14:52:18.380| 1906] INFO: backup_sign finished. Exit code: 0
[2014-10-30 14:52:18.381| 1901] INFO: The utility executed with the return code 0
[2014-10-30 14:52:18.381| 1901] INFO: Ftp init url ftp://filesanywhere.com/clientdomainfolder
[2014-10-30 14:53:21.445| 1901] INFO: CurlError[f70f602b-65f6-432a-879b-a0b72fa16894]: Curl error: Couldn't connect to server [./ftp.cpp:418]
void plesk::tFtpConnection::UploadFile(const std::string&)
[2014-10-30 14:53:21.445| 1901] INFO: TransportError[78b77289-deec-441e-8f87-a375a944abc3]: Transport error: unable to put local file /usr/local/psa/PMM/tmp/backupSDOBlx/clientdomainfolder to clientdomainfolder: Curl error: Couldn't connect to server [./transport.cpp:706]
virtual void plesk::tRepositoryFtp:utFile(const std::string&, const std::string&)
[2014-10-30 14:53:21.446| 1901] INFO: pmm-ras finished. Exit code: 1