Question Restoring from Plesk Backup Manager

[sagelike]

Server operating system version

Cloudlinux 8.90

Plesk version and microupdate number

18.0.64

Hi there,

I'm testing using Plesk's native Backup Manager and I've successfully configured backup but I have a question about restores.

I'm using incremental backup and my question is how do I restore files from a specific date?

The incremental backups aren't chained as they would be in Ahsay or similar backup solution, so if I need to restore an entire site from 14 days ago - for example - how would I restore all files from 14 days ago when only the files which may have changed 14 days ago are backed up?

The bulk of the files might be backed up in the full monthly backup from 3 weeks ago - for example - with more recently modified files being backed up on a variety of different days inside of tar files.

Do I need to examine every tar file to find the files for a full site restoration?

Hope this makes sense.

Thanks in advance,
G

 

[Bitpalast]

You can click on the last incremental backup and select the file you want to restore. Plesk automatically links the full backup with the increments. If a file is not included in an increment, it will look for it in the previous increment, in the previous increment, in the previous increment, until it finds the file in the full backup (if not included in any more recent increment).

 

[sagelike]

Thanks for your reply! That answers my question.

Too bad there wasn't a way to restore to an alternate location. I prefer replacing files manually vs letting the software do it but this will work.