You can back up a database in the following ways:
- Export a database dump in the SQL format. This enables you to create
and download the database in a single file. An individual file can be
restored into the same or another database. See the Exporting and
Importing Database Dumps section for details. - Back up an entire subscription. This enables you to create a backup
file in a selected storage (on the Plesk server or on a remote FTP
server). When restoring the backup, you can select a database to
restore. See the Backing Up and Recovering Websites
section for details.
You can restore a database either from a subscription backup archive or
from an SQL dump file in the following ways:
- Import a database dump. This enables you to restore data from a file
in the SQL format. Individual dumps can be restored into any database
of the same type as the type of a dump (for example, MySQL). See the
Exporting and Importing Database Dumps section for
details. - Restore a database from a backup of an entire subscription. When
restoring the backup, you can select an individual database to
restore. See the Backing Up and Recovering Websites
section for details.