Knowledge Base

Backing Up and Restoring Data

With the data backup and restore functions provided by your Plesk, you
can perform the following operations:

Perform a manual backup. You can back up the configuration of
your reseller account in Plesk as well as the configuration of all
customer accounts, with or without the domains’ data, including
website content, mail content, databases, and more.
Schedule an automated backup. You can configure a scheduled
backup that will automatically back up the selected content at a
specified interval.
Restore the contents of a backup file. You can restore
configuration and content stored in any of the backup files you
create.

The table below describes what data is stored in backups containing only
configuration, and those containing both configuration and content.

What is backed up	What is included
Reseller’s configuration	Reseller’s personal settings Service plans and subscriptions Settings and configuration of customer accounts, sites, databases, mailboxes, mailing lists. SSL/TLS certificates. DNS information.
Reseller’s configuration and content	All of the above, plus: Web sites’ content. Emails’ content. Mailing lists’ content. Databases’ content. Logs and statistics. Custom error pages.