Wednesday, 10 March 2010

Backing Up the Entire Plesk Server




To backup the server configuration settings and all user data you have on your hosting machine:


Login as root to your server.


Change to the directory, where Plesk is installed:



cd /plesk_installation_directory/bin

Run the following command:


./pleskbackup --server

Where the is a target backup file name with absolute or relative path. The data will be backed up without disruption of hosting services and downtime.


The resulting backup archive will be placed in the directory you specified.



To Change the plesk backup directory. please change the location of the directory in the plesk conf file



nano -w /etc/psa/psa.conf

# Backups directory


DUMP_D /var/lib/psa/dumps

to run backup


/usr/local/psa/bin/pleskbackup --server

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