Creating Backups – Creating a Scheduled Backup

To create a scheduled backup:

1. Go to Websites & Domains > Backup Manager > Schedule and
   click the Activate this backup task checkbox.

2. Under “Run this backup task” set the desired frequency and the time
   the backup process must be started.

3. Select whether to use incremental backups. By default, every
   scheduled backup is created as a full backup. Full backups contain
   all data of the specified types (you specify which data to back up
   during step 5).

   To allow the creation of incremental backups, select the “Use
   incremental backup” checkbox. Incremental backups contain only the
   files that have changed since the last backup. Incremental backups
   are created quicker and take less disk space than full backups.
   However, to restore an incremental backup, you must have the
   corresponding full backup and all previously created incremental
   backups available.

   Under “Perform full backup”, if you allow the use of incremental
   backups, specify how often a full backup must be created.

4. Under “Keep backup files for”, type a number in the field if you want
   Plesk to automatically remove outdated full backups. Full backups
   stored longer than the specified time period will be automatically
   removed.

   If you do not want Plesk to remove full backups automatically, leave
   the field empty.

5. Under “Back up”, you can select which content you want to back up.
   Domain configuration is always included in backups. You can choose to
   exclude “Mail configuration and content” and/or “User files and
   databases” by clearing the corresponding checkboxes.

6. Under “Store in”, you can change where the backup must be stored. By
   default, backups are stored on the Plesk server. If you have
   configured remote storage, you can store backups in
   the remote storage by selecting the corresponding radio button.

7. If you selected the remote storage option during the previous step,
   you can split the backup file into volumes. Select the “Create a
   multivolume backup, volume size (MB)” checkbox, and then specify the
   volume size. This can be useful if the remote storage places
   restrictions on the maximum file size.

8. At this point, the backup is ready to be scheduled. There are a
   number of optional settings you can configure before scheduling the
   backup:

   • To exclude log files from the backup, select the “Exclude log
     files” checkbox. This can significantly decrease the amount of
     disk space taken by the scheduled backups, especially if you have
     configured a daily backup and the log files take up a lot of
     space.

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