Invalid pleskbackup increment command

[Zoler0]

Hello Plesk Forums,

I'm trying to setup automatic backups for my server. I'm running the latest plesk parallels. 12.5.30
Now I like to export the incremental backups towards a different location. So I use: --output-file=<fullpath/filename>

Using this documentation: http://docs.plesk.com/en-US/12.5/ad...ta/backup-utility-commands-and-options.68843/

Normal backup without --incremental works:
[root@server]# /usr/local/psa/bin/pleskbackup server --description="FULL server backup" --verbose --output-file="/var/lib/psa/tmp/full_backup.tar"

Incremental backup with--incremental does not work:
[root@server]# /usr/local/psa/bin/pleskbackup server --description="Incremental server backup" --verbose --incremental --output-file="/var/lib/psa/tmp/incremental_backup.tar"

The error I receive is:
The option --output-file must specify existing directory path to store incremental backup at /usr/local/psa/admin/bin/plesk_agent_manager line 922.

Now when I don't specify the filename when I do an incremental backup (Without incremental_backup.tar) it does work. Like this:
[root@server]# /usr/local/psa/bin/pleskbackup server --description="Incremental server backup" --verbose --incremental --output-file="/var/lib/psa/tmp/"

But I want my own specified filename...

Could you guys please fix this or give me alternatives to do?

Kind regards,
Zolero

 

[IgorG]

You can't specify name of incremental backup because it is system task. Names of main and increment backups should follow certain rules. For example, I have created first backup:

[root@ppu12-5 ~]# /usr/local/psa/bin/pleskbackup server --description="Incremental server backup" --verbose --incremental --output-file=/var/lib/psa/dumps/
..Accounts [1/2], Domains [0/1]
Accounts [2/2], Domains [1/1]
Accounts [2/2], Domains [1/1]
Accounts [2/2], Domains [1/1]
-------------- Start print backup log hire --------------
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<execution-result status="success" log-location="/usr/local/psa/PMM/sessions/2016-04-14-101440.514/migration.result"/>
-------------- End print backup log hire --------------

You can view additional information in the log file located in /usr/local/psa/PMM/sessions/2016-04-14-101440.514 directory. This directory will be removed automatically after 30 days

The backup finished successfully
[root@ppu12-5 ~]# ll /var/lib/psa/dumps/
total 816
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 400556 Apr 14 10:14 backup_1604141014.tar


Then I added database for one domain and created increment:

# /usr/local/psa/bin/pleskbackup server --description="Incremental server backup" --verbose --incremental --output-file=/var/lib/psa/dumps/
..Accounts [1/2], Domains [0/1]
Accounts [2/2], Domains [1/1]
Accounts [2/2], Domains [1/1]
-------------- Start print backup log hire --------------
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<execution-result status="success" log-location="/usr/local/psa/PMM/sessions/2016-04-14-101619.71/migration.result"/>
-------------- End print backup log hire --------------

You can view additional information in the log file located in /usr/local/psa/PMM/sessions/2016-04-14-101619.71 directory. This directory will be removed automatically after 30 days

The backup finished successfully
[root@ppu12-5 ~]# ll /var/lib/psa/dumps/
total 1128
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 318636 Apr 14 10:16 backup_1604141014_1604141016.tar
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 400556 Apr 14 10:14 backup_1604141014.tar

 

[Zoler0]

Thank you for your information!