Question Why Plesk needs so much local storage for external backup?

[lukas-degan]

Hi all, if a full backup is running my local disk gets full very fast. Can i prevent this? I tried the option to split the backup into smaller files, but that doesent help.
Its very anoing on bigger servers, they need hundrets of gb extra disk just for backup.

 

[IgorG]

To back up the server to cloud storage, it is required to have additional free disk space equal to the space occupied by the two largest subscriptions, rather than the amount occupied by the entire server.

Also, there is a Multivolume option for scheduled backups that allows splitting tmp backup files to smaller parts that will save the disk space occupied by .tmp files. This way, it is required to have only twice more the free size of the volume size specified in Backup Manager > Schedule