Backing up the configuration information and the data
Full Backup
You can back up the entire Plesk server: the control panel configuration and server settings along with client accounts and domains.
To perform a full backup follow these steps:
Run Plesk Backup.
Select the Back up control panel configuration and server settings checkbox and click the Select All shortcut to select all client accounts and domains.
Specify the path and filename for the backed up data to be stored or click the Browse button to locate an existing backup file to be overwritten.
Type a description in the Description field, if desired.
Click Start.
Selective backup
You can choose to back up only the data associated with certain client accounts or certain domains. The Plesk Backup utility allows you to select the client accounts and/or domains for performing the selective backup of data.
Backing up selected client accounts
Follow these steps to back up the selected client accounts:
Run Plesk Backup.
Select the client accounts you wish to backup by checking the corresponding checkboxes in the object tree or click the Select All shortcut to select all of them.
Specify the path and filename for the backed up data to be stored or click the Browse button to locate an existing backup file to be overwritten.
Type a description in the Description field, if desired.
Click Start.
Backing up selected domains
Follow these steps to back up the selected domains:
Run Plesk Backup.
Select the domains you wish to back up by checking the corresponding checkboxes in the object tree. Note: when backing up a domain, the personal information and credentials of the client - owner of the domain are also stored.
Specify the path and filename for the backed up data to be stored or click the Browse button to locate an existing backup file to be overwritten.
Type a description in the Description field, if desired.
Click Start.
IMPORTANT
It is recommended that you use the Suspend domain operations during backing up option, because if some changes are made through the Plesk control panel during the process of backing up, the resulting backup file may be generated incorrectly or the process itself may fail.
You are strongly advised to temporarily stop the control panel web-server engine, so as to prevent the users from changing data through the control panel in the process of executing a backup. To do this, select the Suspend control panel services during backing up checkbox, or operate the control panel services via the Service Control Utility that can be invoked from the operating system taskbar. Please keep in mind that the Backup and restore utilities require that the Plesk Management Service, Plesk Miscellaneous Service, and Plesk SQL Server be running.
