Backing Up Your Data

To back up all data, including server and control panel configuration, remote database servers, license keys, user accounts, Web sites, databases, and mailboxes with e-mail messages, run the command:

/plesk_installation_directory/bin/pleskbackup all <backup file name>

Note: If you want to save backup files to an FTP server, specify a URL like ftp://[<login>[:<password>]@]<server>/<filepath> instead of <backup file name>. You can specify the password for access to the FTP server using the FTP_PASSWORD environment variable.

To back up all user accounts with all users' sites, run the command:

/plesk_installation_directory/bin/pleskbackup clients <backup file name>

To back up all sites hosted on server without storing details for each client account, run the command:

/plesk_installation_directory/bin/pleskbackup domains <backup file name>

To back up selected user accounts with Web sites:

Create a text file and list there the control panel login names of the clients whose accounts you wish to back up, one login name per line. For example:
client1

client2
Save the file.
Run the command /plesk_installation_directory/bin/pleskbackup clients <backup file name> -f=<file name>
where <file name> is the file listing the objects you wish to backup that you created at the step 1.

To back up selected Web sites:

Create a text file and list there the domain names of the sites that you wish to back up, one domain name per line. For example:
domain1.com

domain2.com
Save the file.
Run the command /plesk_installation_directory/bin/pleskbackup domains <backup file name> -f=<file name>
where <file name> is the file listing the objects you wish to backup that you created at the step 1.

To back up a specific user account with all user's web sites, run the command:

echo 'client's login name' | /plesk_installation_directory/bin/pleskbackup clients <backup file name> -

To back up a specific web site, run the command:

echo 'domain name' | /plesk_installation_directory/bin/pleskbackup domains <backup file name> -list -

Table 1. Pleskbackup utility commands and options.


Available commands
Command	Arguments and Syntax	Description
`all`	`backup file name`	Backs up all data related to your installation of Plesk and saves them into file under the specified name.
`clients`	`backup file name`	Backs up all data related to all or selected client accounts (including web sites) and saves them to file under the specified name. For a selective backup of client accounts, compile a list of client accounts, save it in a file, and then use the --clients option together with the -list <file name> argument.
`domains`	`backup file name`	Backs up all data related to hosted domains/web sites and saves them to file under the specified name. For a selective backup of domains/web sites, compile a list of domain names, save it in a file, and then use the --domains option together with the -list <file name> argument.
`help or -h`		Shows the available commands and options.
Available options
`-c`		Backs up only settings related to control panel, without the content of sites, mailboxes or databases.
`-s`	`-s=<file size>`	Splits the created backup file to parts. The size can be specified in kilobytes (<size>K), megabytes (<size>M) and gigabytes (<size>G). The '-s' option without an argument selects the default file size of 2 gigabytes.
`-f`	`-f=<file name>`	Specifies the path to file that contains a list of objects (clients' login names or domain names) that you prepared for a selective backup. You can use the -f argument with hyphen instead of file name, if you wish the pleskbackup utility to read data from stdin. For example: `echo 'domain.com' \| pleskbackup --domains <backup file name> -f -`
`-f`	`-f=<file name>`		`--exclude`	`Specifies the items (domain names or clients' login names separated with white spaces) that should not be backed up.`
`--exclude-file`		`Specifies the file that contains a list of items that should not be backed up.`
`-v`		Shows information about backup progress.