Reggie Thomson’s Diary

Plesk 8.01 is still giving problems with backup to remote FTP.

I use a Godaddy FTP server as backup. However, Plesk seems to delete the old backup file without creating a new one.

My workaround is to do backups manually.

Using Putty SSH, I create a backup directory, eg. 20060816.

Then, in Plesk -> Domains -> (domain name) -> Backup Manager -> FTP Account properties, I change the FTP directory to “/20060816″, do a manual backup to FTP, then change the FTP directory back to “/”

Maybe someday Plesk will be reliable enough to work automatically.

Also, the FTP repository is not visible as an automatic restore, which is a nuisance. I’m assuming it will be possible to use FTP to bring the backups into the correct location on my server to make them visible.

[Update 2006-12-16:] Plesk 8.1.0 now has an improved backup, allowing FTP access and showing all FTP backups. The backup also includes statistics.

Plesk has changed the /var/lib/psa/dumps/ directory structure.

Now each user has a numbered directory, whereas before, the backups were stored in a directory for each domain name e.g. mydomainname.com
So, I removed the old directories by hand

rm -rf mydomainname.com