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[TDutch]

TITLE:

Restore overwrite sub domain without selecting the sub domain​

PRODUCT, VERSION, OPERATING SYSTEM, ARCHITECTURE:

Plesk Onyx, web pro, 17.8.11 Update #49, Microsoft Windows Server 2016‬ VPS​

PROBLEM DESCRIPTION:

tradingdutch.nl
learn.tradingdutch.nl

Both have their own WordPress installations. Every night a scheduled (incremental) job runs.

I made a lot of changes to learn.tradingdutch.nl. I restored only tradingdutch.nl from the incremental backup including the correct database.

Al changes on learn.tradingducth.nl are lost, because the sub domain is restored too.​

STEPS TO REPRODUCE:

Make a change on learn.tradingdutch.nl restore tradingdutch.nl​

ACTUAL RESULT:

the changes on learn.tradingdutch.nl are gone. The sub domain is also restored.​

EXPECTED RESULT:

only tradingdutch.nl is restored when selecting only this website and his database​

ANY ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

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YOUR EXPECTATIONS FROM PLESK SERVICE TEAM:

Help with sorting out​

 

[TDutch]

Found a work around*

When I, before restoring only the main domain website, overwrite the permissions of httpdocs (main domain) for the Plesk Domain User including:
"Allow inheritable permissions from the parent to propagate to this object and all child objects. Include these with the entries explicitly defined here" and "Replace permission entries on all child objects with the entries displayed here" the sub domain is not overwritten by restoring the main domain....

If after this I restore only the main domain again, as soon as I get an error of specific files that cannot be created or overwritten, the sub domain is restored too...

*2019/04/20 did not work later on. See another test below

 

[TDutch]

Another test:
1. I add a menu item, changed some text and updated a plugin on the sub domain.
2. I restore the sub domain. Only the plugin is back to the old version, the text and menu did not change back
3. I add a menu on the main domain (reset all rights on folder and child folders)
4. I restored only the main domain
5. the menu on the main domain disappeared as expected, but: also the text and menu on the sub domain was gone!!

 

[IgorG]

We cannot reproduce the issue with web content (maybe you have nested subdomain's document root ). But we restore all databases together with the main site (we ignore site-database association).

 

[TDutch]

okay, but why do I have the option to select only the database of the subdomain to restore? (or select only the database of the main domain to restore, when you restore them both anyway)