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Greg Horne
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I have several questions about how backups and restores are performed and have yet to find answers but perhaps I am looking in the wrong place.
http://download1.parallels.com/Plesk/.../en.../plesk-9.0-backup-cli-guide.pdf
http://download1.parallels.com/Ples...backup-cli-guide/index.htm?fileName=62004.htm
Currently all backups are performed through the GUI and not CLI on several different versions of Plesk. They are saved to an FTP server and depending on version of Plesk are different file types. 8.6 does not appear to be a tar file on the ftp server and 9.2 is an xml locally and a tar on the ftp server. My first concern is how do I restore a backup if a server dies and I reinstall Plesk? My backups are from the domain level and if I reinstall Plesk my only backup option is at the server level which will not recreate a domain from a backup. I found you cannot create the same domain name and try to restore because it will error that the domain already exists. If you try to create a different domain name the content will not restore to the old domain.
I also was curious to know if you can ftp multiple copies of a backups to different ftp servers. I would like to give the developers a copy and retain one for myself in case I need to restore. Also is there a way to do this over ssh using scp instead of ftp?
Finally, what directories are backed up? I see that the mail is with /var/qmail/mailnames web content /var/www/vhosts/*domain and the mysql is within /var/lib/mysql but there is a discrepancy of what du shows on just /var/www/vhosts/*domain and my entire backup, du shows more than three times the amount of disk usage on some of my backups and I suspect it is not compressing that much.
http://download1.parallels.com/Plesk/.../en.../plesk-9.0-backup-cli-guide.pdf
http://download1.parallels.com/Ples...backup-cli-guide/index.htm?fileName=62004.htm
Currently all backups are performed through the GUI and not CLI on several different versions of Plesk. They are saved to an FTP server and depending on version of Plesk are different file types. 8.6 does not appear to be a tar file on the ftp server and 9.2 is an xml locally and a tar on the ftp server. My first concern is how do I restore a backup if a server dies and I reinstall Plesk? My backups are from the domain level and if I reinstall Plesk my only backup option is at the server level which will not recreate a domain from a backup. I found you cannot create the same domain name and try to restore because it will error that the domain already exists. If you try to create a different domain name the content will not restore to the old domain.
I also was curious to know if you can ftp multiple copies of a backups to different ftp servers. I would like to give the developers a copy and retain one for myself in case I need to restore. Also is there a way to do this over ssh using scp instead of ftp?
Finally, what directories are backed up? I see that the mail is with /var/qmail/mailnames web content /var/www/vhosts/*domain and the mysql is within /var/lib/mysql but there is a discrepancy of what du shows on just /var/www/vhosts/*domain and my entire backup, du shows more than three times the amount of disk usage on some of my backups and I suspect it is not compressing that much.