Applicable to:
- Plesk for Windows
- Plesk for Linux
Question
How to restore a Plesk backup from a command-line interface?
Answer
It is possible to use pleskrestore CLI utility to restore Plesk backup files for both Linux and Windows servers.
The same utility can be used to restore different backup levels: customers, resellers, domains, and server-wide backups.
Find some examples below:
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To restore Plesk server from a server-wide backup run:
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for Linux-based OSes:
# plesk bin pleskrestore --restore "Backup-file" -level server
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for Windows-based OSes:
C:\> plesk bin pleskrestore.exe --restore "Backup-file" -level server
Note: By default, all backup data is stored in the directory
/var/lib/psa/dumpsin Plesk for Linux and%plesk_dir%Backupin Plesk for Windows
To restore a subscription from a zipped backup file:
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for Linux-based OSes:
# plesk bin pleskrestore --restore "/root/example.com.zip" -ignore-sign -verbose -level domains
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for Windows-based OSes:
C:\> plesk bin pleskrestore.exe --restore "C:\example.com.zip" -ignore-sign -verbose -level domains
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For other advanced usage options, refer to Official Plesk CLI documentation for Linux and for Windows.
Comments
4 comments
what need to enter here
-level server
Hi Miguel Monteiro,
This article should say in which directory the Plesk backup files are.
For me they are in:
/var/lib/psa/dumps/.discovered/
Hi Ehud Ziegelman
Thank you for the heads up, I updated the article accordingly
Renan this article helped me alot my site is an e-commerce site and I did this with the command line, worked like a charm, thank you....:)
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