Question Need more space ... move /var?

[TristanA]

Hello everyone,

I need your help!

I have a Debian 8.9 VM on OpenStack provided by OVH.com where Plesk Onyx is installed.
This VM has only 50GB of disk space without partition.

I was thinking of adding an NFS share of 1.2TB. I know plesk VHOSTs are in /var/www. But are the mails stored? The database?

Should I do a dd of /var to my NFS share?

Thank you in advance for your help.

 

[UFHH01]

Hi TristanA,

But are the mails stored?

Mails are store at: => "/var/qmail"

I would recommend to mount the NFS and use the "transvhosts.pl" ( => How to change Virtual Hosts location in Plesk for Unix )

 

[TristanA]

Hi UFHH01,

Thanks for your reply!

I just created a new plesk infrastructure for our customers.
I took 3 servers 1 for management node and 2 for node instances.

For you, I just have to do a mount point of /var/qmail and /var/www/vhost to the NFS server? Not full /var ?

 

[UFHH01]

Hi TristanA,

50 GB are sufficient and leave enough space for additional files and folders, when you move "/var/qmail" and "/var/www" to another mount point. But consider as well to change the backup - location, which is defined at "/etc/psa/psa.conf" with the standart settings:

# Backups directory
DUMP_D /var/lib/psa/dumps
# Backups temporary directory. DUMP_TMP_D should not be inside of (or equal to) DUMP_D.
DUMP_TMP_D /tmp