How to restore mail accounts from a full domain backup to Plesk?

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How to restore email accounts from a Plesk backup?

Restoring mail data via Plesk interface

Log in to Plesk.
Go to Domains > example.com > Backup Manager.
Click on a backup from which you want to restore mail data.
For What do you want to restore? select Selected objects.
Set the type of object - Mail account.
Select an email account from the list and click on it to move to the selected list.
Click OK to start the restoration.

Restoring mail data via a command-line interface

Connect to the server via SSH.
List all available Plesk backups:

# /usr/local/psa/admin/bin/pmm-ras --get-dump-list | grep .xml:
Use the pleskrestore utility to restore the mail data.

Example:

# /usr/local/psa/bin/pleskrestore --restore /var/lib/psa/dumps/domains/example.com/backup_info_2301030133.xml -only-mailnames list:john_doe@example.com

where:
- backup_info_2301030133.xml - backup name from step 2
- john_doe@example.com - email account which is going to be restored
  
  To learn more about the pleskrestore utility options, run the command:
  
  # /usr/local/psa/bin/pleskrestore --help