Backup, Restore & Migration

Articles about FTP service, Backup & Restore and Migration processes.

How to exclude specific files/directories from a backup in Plesk?
How to enable secure FTP (FTPS) connections in Plesk for Linux
Cannot create or migrate Plesk Domain: The user already exists
How to limit the number of server-wide backups stored in Plesk
How to restore a Plesk backup from CLI?
FTP connection is randomly dropped during file transfer on Plesk for Linux server with SELinux
How to create and restore backups using Dropbox Backup extension in Plesk?
Where are Plesk Backup Manager temporary files located?
How to download a large backup file from Plesk?
How to choose IP migration scenario in Plesk
Migration between two Plesk servers cannot be started: Version of Plesk on the target server is lower than version of Plesk on the source
How to restart a stuck migration session?
Is it possible to migrate Plesk without source root user password?
Scheduled Plesk backups do not run at the scheduled time
Is it possible to restore files from a remote Plesk backup without downloading the full backup file?
Is it possible to migrate a single or several domains using Plesk Migration & Transfer Manager?
Unable to start new migration: failed to open stream: scandir(/opt/psa/var/modules/panel-migrator/sessions): failed to open dir
How to migrate Service Plan to another Plesk server?
Backup/restoration process fails in Plesk: Cannot stat: Permission denied /bin/tar: Error is not recoverable
How to restore Subscription or Domain contents from a Plesk backup?
Unable to start a Plesk migration: bin/mkdir: cannot create directory: Permission denied
Migration or Site import fails: Unable to add database user: Database user name is invalid
How to migrate a website from other server to Plesk?
Migration finishes with the warning: Login of FTP user does not conform to Plesk rules
Migration from Confixx to Plesk fails: Command execution failed on the source server 'confixx' () with non-zero exit code
Unable to start Plesk migration or connect via SSH Terminal extension due to invalid permissions on .ssh files: Permission denied (publickey,gssapi-with-mic,password)
Unable to import a Plesk backup from another Plesk server: The file was modified, corrupted, created on another server or in an older Plesk version that does not support signing of backups
Unable to start migration: Unable to execute command because another migration is in progress
How to allow resellers and customers to upload backup files without a valid signature
How to check if a Plesk backup/restoration task is still running