Plesk for Windows
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- Plesk for Linux
- Plesk for Windows
Question
Why only one backup file is shown in Dropbox directory while there are multiple Dropbox backups in Plesk interface?
Answer
When Dropbox backend is used for the cloud backups, it keeps overwriting the same file server.servername.example.com.tar in Dropbox directory, instead of creating new files.
This behavior is by design: all additional backups are stored in the Dropbox revisions. These revisions can be found in Dropbox > backup_location > server.servername.example.com.tar > ⋯ > Version history:
On restoration Plesk Backup Manager will automatically select the correct revision from the list, download and extract it.
Comments
6 comments
Why is there no option to disable this? Its an extremely messy way to do backups
Brendan Tully Hello, could you please provide specific details and use-cases on why current behavior is not optimal for you?
To do a restore its a mess of going through dropbox revisions - doesnt really invoke much confidence!
Thank you for the feedback Brendan Tully I will pass it to our development team. To simplify restoration it is better to perform a task from Plesk interface itself: if you're restoring data on a new server connect Dropbox with new Plesk and you will see available dates under Backup Manager.
Ah ok so plesk will figure out the revisions thing itself?
Hi, I have the same reaction as Brendan Tully : this is not really easy nor reassuring when you have to navigate through backups in Dropbox.
I would really prefer to have the choice of listing all backups by date with a file for each day as presented in Plesk.
I imagine this has been done to allow backups on free and small accounts since revisions are kept for 30 days without extra costs on storage.
Thanks.
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