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How to set the day of week scheduled Full Backups to run in Plesk?

Aleksandar Stoev
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Question

How to set the day of week scheduled Full Backups to run?

Answer

By default when activating the backup task, the next backup will be a full backup. As a result, activating the backup task on Monday the next full backup will be performed on Monday or Tuesday depending on the selected time. Here are the steps to create a backup that executes on Sunday as we need:

  1. Log in to Plesk.

  2. Make sure that scheduled backup task is active under Tools & Settings > Backup Manager.

  3. Before the necessary day of a full backup creation (e.g. on Saturday), turn off the option Use incremental backup.

  4. Once the full backup is made on Sunday, turn the option Use incremental backup back on.

The next backup after the required day of the week will be an incremental backup.

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    AST

    Hi,

    How about monthly schedule? Is it possible to enforce the full backup to happen on a particular day of the week?

    Thanks.

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