Restore couldn t restore the content of my httdocs

[dj_tiesto]

Hello, Im trying to restore my info from a backup i made with pleskrestore recently. i finished successfully the restore but i couldn t restore the content of my httdocs, and i dont know why. can anybody help me please?

 

[0031]

I've faced the same problem before. I'm afraid your backup files are corrupted, you should update backup manager to the latest available version and redo the backup

 

[dj_tiesto]

Plesk support HELP

Too many users we have the same problem, and where is the support team? we haven´t any answer or help.

 

[Linux_FC5]

Backup utility is worthless

It seems that NOT many users use backup utility of PLESK !

I was wondering which people use it, as i totally removed this service of course after a long long time it did to make a successfull backup.

I think it is useless and stupid thing to make backups through plesk! There are many ways to make it without plesk!

So do not blame to support team!

That's right , use latest release and update the backup manager first.

Your previous successfull backup included totally the domain name, and all the files inside it. So when you restore it something is missing you said? the httdocs directory?

Have you asked yourself why?
Did you backuped this dir?
When you backup a domain that becomes inaccessible for the time it needs to complete and it depends of the size, too.

Maby the corruption came when the script did the job to this folder.

Do you have enough DISK space for this?

Best practice i think is to copy through ssh the folder to other place like /tmp
so you can have it again in future with the old permissions , only the user has to be chown to the new you just created.

 

[thewolf]

Our psadump/psarestore restores are also missing directories/mailboxes, is there a patch for the backup utilities or something to prevent that?

Thanks.

 

[DCNet_James]

First of all, this is the PSA 8.0 forum, psadump and psarestore were 7.5.x and earlier. With PSA 8 we're talking about pleskbackup and pleskrestore.

I have experienced this issue with email directories not being restored as well as users email accounts not being recreated. So pleskbackup is definitely not a full proof plan, though its saved me a couple of times I must admit.

Here is how I handle backups:
- Daily
I run a perl script that runs:
pleskbackup --all /tmp/daily.dump

This of course is not full proof. Also within my script I run some system level copies of the mailnames directory, the qmail control files, the web root of all domains hosted by plesk, the mysql root, the /etc/psa directory and some other misc stuff. I then tarball up the dump, the directory copies, and whatever else I want to backup daily into 1 file and dump it on my NFS server. What this accomplishes is not only do I have the pleskbackup dump file, but also hard copies of my most important data, so whatever the PSA utility skips, I can manually restore. These tarballs are saved as far back as a month.

- Weekly
I run full backups of my PSA server with Amanda to my NFS server. These are saved back 3 weeks worth (3 files).

- Monthly
I run the same as the weekly but on the 1st of every month. I save 2 monthlies.

- Ghost/Imaging
I use an imaging utility to create a partition image of a fresh install of any PSA server I build so I can quickly restore it. Semi-annually I run images of every server and save them for a year.

Now this might be a bit obnoxious and there are many other backups routines you can use, such as tape, etc etc. This works for me and I believe the key to pleskbackup is not to rely solely on it. Use a multitude of backup processes and have a good backup/restore plan and stick to it. As far as I've seen, psadump to pleskrestore has always had issues, so build yourself a NAS box and start dumping backups there.

Another method is to employ snapshotting, again has its drawbacks.

My 2 cents...

J