Applicable to:
- Plesk for Linux
- Plesk for Windows
Question
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How to remove Plesk backups?
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How to remove old Plesk backup logfiles?
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Backups have been removed from Plesk, but their files and logs exist on the file system. How to remove these backup files and logs?
Answer
Note: It is possible to set a period of time after which backups will be removed automatically. In addition, it is possible to limit the number of backups to store.
When a scheduled backup task is completed successfully, the corresponding log files are deleted automatically.
Via Plesk
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In Plesk, go to Tools & Settings > Backup manager (server-wide backups) or Websites & Domains > Backup Manager (domain backups).
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Choose a backup that should be deleted and click Remove. Backup files will be also removed from the system.
Via a command-line interface
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For Plesk on Linux
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Connect to a Plesk server via SSH.
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Find the backup_infoXXXX.xml file using a backup creation date:
# /usr/local/psa/admin/bin/pmm-ras --get-dump-list | grep .xml:
In this example, the domain level backup was created on 10.08.2019 (19.08.10):
# /usr/local/psa/admin/bin/pmm-ras --get-dump-list | grep .xml:
<message>domains/example.com/backup_info_1908101555.xml: </message> -
Delete the backup by specifying the corresponding *.xml file. For example:
# /usr/local/psa/admin/bin/pmm-ras --verbose --debug --delete-dump --dump-specification=backup_info_1908101555.xml --session-path=/var/log/plesk/PMM
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For Plesk Obsidian on Windows Server
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Connect to a Plesk server via RDP.
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Find the backup_infoXXXX.xml file using a backup creation date:
C:\> "%plesk_bin64%"\pmm-ras.exe --get-dump-list | findstr .xml:
In this example, the domain level backup was created on 22 July 2020:
C:\> "%plesk_bin64%"\pmm-ras.exe --get-dump-list | findstr .xml:
<message>backup_info_2007220826.xml: </message>If Plesk was installed into a custom location, replace C:\Program Files (x86) in the command above with the custom location
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Remove the backup by specifying the corresponding *.xml file. For example:
C:\> "%plesk_bin64%"\pmm-ras.exe --verbose --debug --delete-dump --dump-specification=backup_info_2007220826.xml
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For Plesk Onyx or earlier on Windows Server
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Connect to a Plesk server via RDP.
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Find the backup_infoXXXX.xml file using a backup creation date:
C:\>"%plesk_bin%/pmm-ras" --get-dump-list | findstr .xml:
In this example, the domain level backup was created on 10.08.2019 (19.08.10):
C:\>"%plesk_bin%/pmm-ras" --get-dump-list | findstr .xml:
<message>domains/example.com/backup_info_1908101555.xml: </message> -
Remove the backup by specifying the corresponding *.xml file. For example:
C:\> "%plesk_bin%\pmm-ras.exe" --verbose --debug --delete-dump --dump-specification=backup_info_1908101555.xml --session-path="%plesk_dir%PMM"
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Connect to a Plesk server via SSH.
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Delete directories with old backup files created before a desired date from
/var/log/plesk/PMM/:# find /var/log/plesk/PMM/ -name 'backup*' -type d -ctime +XX -exec rm -rf {} +;
where XX is a number of days before the current date.
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Connect to a Plesk server via SSH.
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Delete backup directories and files created before a desired date from
/var/log/plesk/PMM/and/var/lib/psa/dumps:-
Remove backup logfiles:
# find /var/log/plesk/PMM/ -name 'backup*' -type d -ctime +XX -exec rm -rf {} +;
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Remove backup files:
# find /var/lib/psa/dumps -name 'backup*' -ctime +XX -exec rm -rf {} +;
where XX is a number of days before the current date.
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Comments
4 comments
I have lots of other files in the /var/lib/psa -- some seems to be left over from migration days..
Can't we delete them? The above commands did nothing
# du -sh dumps/
199G dumps/
drwxr-x---. 7 psaadm psaadm 208K May 26 09:41 .
-rw------- 1 root root 3.5M May 26 09:41 mysql.preresolve.20230526-094109.dump.gz
-rw------- 1 root root 5.7K May 26 08:39 mysql.preupgrade.apsc.18.0.52-18.0.52.2023
0526-083923.dump.gz
-rw------- 1 root root 3.4M May 26 08:39 mysql.preupgrade.18.0.52-18.0.52.20230526-
083920.dump.gz
-rw------- 1 root root 3.5M May 26 05:44 mysql.daily.dump.0.gz
-rw------- 1 root root 3.5M May 25 06:00 mysql.daily.dump.1.gz
-rw------- 1 root root 3.5M May 24 05:58 mysql.daily.dump.2.gz
-rw------- 1 root root 3.5M May 23 05:39 mysql.daily.dump.3.gz
-rw------- 1 root root 3.5M May 22 05:47 mysql.daily.dump.4.gz
-rw------- 1 root root 3.5M May 21 06:23 mysql.daily.dump.5.gz
drwxr-x--- 2 root root 4.0K May 21 03:59 .run
-rw------- 1 root root 502K May 21 03:57 backup_info_2305070213_2305210212.xml
-rw-r----- 1 root root 781 May 21 03:57 backup_ext_performance-booster_2305070213_
2305210212.tzst
-rw-r----- 1 root root 1.1M May 21 03:57 backup_ext_dist_performance-booster_230507
0213_2305210212.tzst
-rw-r----- 1 root root 2.2M May 21 03:57 backup_ext_dist_docker_2305070213_23052102
12.tzst
-rw-r----- 1 root root 214 May 21 03:57 backup_ext_traffic-monitor_2305070213_2305
210212.tzst
-rw-r----- 1 root root 6.4M May 21 03:57 backup_ext_dist_traffic-monitor_2305070213
_2305210212.tzst
-rw-r----- 1 root root 34 May 21 03:57 backup_ext_statistics-usage-manager_230507
0213_2305210212.tzst
-rw-r----- 1 root root 491K May 21 03:57 backup_ext_dist_statistics-usage-manager_2
305070213_2305210212.tzst
turgut kalfaoglu could you please the exact command you applied here?
Cannot delete anything at /var/lib/psa/dumps :(
This guide did not work...
hi Adel Csakvary
find /var/lib/psa/dumps -name 'backup*' -type f -ctime +XX -exec rm -rf {} +;
where XX is a number of days before the current date.
Most likely you did not change the XX.
Or are you receiving an error?
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