Question Is it possible to restore the server from 1 full and 26 incremental backups?

[n.fandrich]

Hello together,

I've been having massive problems with full backups on my Plesk instance running on Ubuntu 18.04 (which is not supported by Plesk anymore). I wonder if it wouldn't make more sense to upgrade the server to a newer Ubuntu version and reinstall Plesk again, but I'm not sure, if my existing backups allow me to recover the most recent version of my data then.

There is a full backup from June 19th - the last day full backups worked. From that day onwards only incremental backups were created:

 

[Kaspar]

Unfortunately I don't have a direct answer to your question. However I can offer some pointers that might help you.

• To see if it's possible to restore from 1 full and 26 incremental backups you could spin-up a cheap VPS/cloud server (and install Plesk). That way you can test if it's possible.
• You could also consider to perform a dist-upgrade from Ubuntu Ubuntu 18 > Ubuntu 20. That way you don't have to setup a new server.
• Lastly I want to mention that Plesk offers "Professional Services" to assist users with upgrading their servers (among other things). It's not free and I am not sure what the costs are. But it might be of interest to you.

 

[Peter Debik]

... or use Plesk Migrator to migrate directly to a newer instance.