Applicable to:
- Plesk for Linux
- Plesk for Windows
Question
How to download a huge (about 100 GB) backup file from Plesk?
This may be required when there is not enough free space on /tmp to store temporary files that get created when clicking on Download in the web interface.
Answer
Plesk stores backups as sets of files.To download, they should be converted to a single backup file.
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Connect to the server via SSH.
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Determine the name of the required
.xmlfile, for example:# plesk sbin pmm-ras --get-dump-list | grep message
<message>backup_info_1908071521.xml: </message>
<message>backup_info_1909120136.xml: </message> -
Build the backup file,
--dump-file-specificationoption defines where a backup will be created on the server:# plesk sbin pmm-ras --export-dump-as-file --dump-specification=backup_info_1908071521.xml --dump-file-specification=/root/backup.tar
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Connect to the server via RDP.
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Determine the required
.xmlfile:C:\> "%plesk_bin%\pmm-ras.exe" --get-dump-list | findstr "message"
<message>backup_info_1908071521.xml: </message>
<message>backup_info_1909120136.xml: </message> -
Build the backup file,
--dump-file-specificationoption defines where a backup will be created on the server:C:\> "%plesk_bin%\pmm-ras.exe" --export-dump-as-file --dump-specification=backup_info_1908071521.xml --dump-file-specification=C:\backup.zip
Note: If default location of backups was customized in the registry, include the full path to the backup in
--dump-specificationoption:C:\> "%plesk_bin%\pmm-ras.exe" --export-dump-as-file --dump-specification=clients\user\domains\example.com\backup_example.com_info_1712162323.xml --dump-file-specification=C:\backup.zip
Comments
6 comments
For the "%plesk_bin%\pmm-ras.exe" --get-dump-list | findst "message" there might be a misspelling or a different program on Windows 2016 findst should be findstr
@Steven Procopio,
The command has been updated.
Thanks for noticing!
Any issues when restoring this backup ?
1. Can we use ```plesk bin pleskrestore --restore backup.tar ``` ?
2. Backup-password ?
@Aleksandar Perisic check this article, it should be helpful https://support.plesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/115001547985-How-to-restore-a-Plesk-backup-from-CLI-
So, how to remove /root/backup.tar via SSH?
Hello @Usta,
This instruction described how to remove a file on Linux:
http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/rm.1.html
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