Issue Plesk remote (FTP) Backup

[MrFunken]

Hi Guys,

I have the following problem. I want to use the remote backup feature.
But, before Plesk uploads the backup to the FTP Server, it will creates the whole backup on the local disk.

So, it is impossible to use the Backup tool provided by Plesk as soon, as I use more then 50% of the disk?

 

[garcue]

Hi Guys,

I have the following problem. I want to use the remote backup feature.
But, before Plesk uploads the backup to the FTP Server, it will creates the whole backup on the local disk.

So, it is impossible to use the Backup tool provided by Plesk as soon, as I use more then 50% of the disk?

Hi MrFunken,

By default, plesk saves the backup that it could not do on FTP. That's why it saves the backups on the disk.
Check that the FTP server credentials are correct and check the logs provided by plesk in each backup error. Copy them here and we review them.

 

[MrFunken]

I can't reproduce the error, or at least I don't want.
As soon as I create a backup, to my FTP Server, the local storage of the Plesk server runs full. (MySQL, Email etc. stop working until I free up some space)

As I already written before, it looks like Plesk first create the compressed backup on the LOCAL disk, as soon as the creation os done Plesk will upload it to the FTP Server?
Can anyone confirm this??

 

[mr-wolf]

I just had a look at the graphs as I'm constantly monitoring all my servers.
Whilst it's doing its weekly back-up you can see it is writing to disk while reading from it.

At the same time there is some fluctuations going on regarding the free space, but these are a fraction of the total back-up which is 189 GB in size.
The greatest dip is 15 GB.

These figures should give you the answer to your questions.

 

[Bitpalast]

Since Onyx not the whole backup files are created on disk before they are uploaded, but the upload is done in segments. For that reason, only a small fraction of the disk space is used and the backup is performed step by step. It will not occupy half of the disk space, but the exact size cannot be predicted, because some things like database dumps are always created in full, not partially.