Backup, Restore & Migration

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

Leftovers remain in Plesk domain's backup manager that can not be removed
Plesk Backup manager screen takes too much time to load
How to switch to the new tokens scheme after Dropbox Backup update?
How to extract files from a Plesk backup archive
Mailboxes of a Subscription with suspended Customer, Subscription or Domain cannot be migrated by the Plesk Migrator
Unable to start Plesk migration from DirectAdmin with AlmaLinux to Plesk server:'directadmin' (203.0.113.2) is not supported
Backup in Plesk is created with warning: Unable to back up database. Error: Unable to find row with id in data_bases table.
Unable to start migration in Plesk: Failed to connect to the source server 'source' (203.0.113.2) by SSH: encountered RSA key, expected OPENSSH key
Unable to schedule domain's backups in Plesk: Certificate has expired
Plesk Obsidian 18.0.41 Backup process can be stuck indefinitely when uploading to remote FTP storage
Unable to restore Plesk backup on a different server: The archive is not valid Plesk backup or has been created in an unsupported Plesk version
Plesk Migrator error: Unable to restore DNS zone from a backup: Incorrect DNS record values were specified: example.com. IN <Record Type> *.example.com.: ('ttl' = '0')
Plesk Backup restores with a warning: Unable to create FTP account: The user jdoe already exists.
Unable to start migration on Plesk server: Command execution failed on the local server with non-zero exit code.
Migration from Plesk servers with MySQL<5.5 fails: Character set 'utf8mb4' is not a compiled character set
Backups fail after the update to Plesk Obsidian 18.0.47: The backup process failed: can't concat str to bytes
Scheduled backups fails since update to Plesk Obsidian 18.0.47: expected str, bytes or os.PathLike object, not int
Plesk backup finishes with warning message: lscache/.cm.log: Permission denied
Unable to create a backup in Plesk: Failed to exec backup_restore_helper: Exit code: 3: System user unavailable
Backup can not be created in Plesk: "Document is empty, line 1, column 1 (, line 1)" or "None (line 0)"
Unable to migrate a subscription in Plesk: Failed to perform action: Restart IIS for IDN domains
Backup via Plesk Google Drive fails: your computer or network may be sending automated queries