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Local backup structure in Plesk for Linux

Information

Note: This structure is valid for Plesk 12.x and Onyx.

Each backup consists of <info>.xml (backup metadata files), <backup>.<zip|tar> (archived backup files which include website content, databases, etc.) and the directory .discovered , which contains backup technical information.

The backup is identified by the data number, and the list of all files included in the backup can be found with the command find .

For example, to find all the files for backup 0812121508:

Note: where as 0812121508
08 – Year
12 – Month
12 – Day
15 – Hour
08 – Minute

Click here to see the snippet

# find $(awk ‘$1==”DUMP_D”{print$2}’ /etc/psa/psa.conf) -name ‘*0812121508*’
/var/lib/psa/dumps/clients/mydomains/converted_mydomains_info_0812121508.xml
/var/lib/psa/dumps/clients/mydomains/domains/myDomain.com/phosting/converted_webstat_0812121508.tgz
/var/lib/psa/dumps/clients/mydomains/domains/example.com/phosting/converted_docroot_ssl_0812121508.tgz
/var/lib/psa/dumps/clients/mydomains/domains/example.com/phosting/converted_logs_0812121508.tgz
/var/lib/psa/dumps/clients/mydomains/domains/example.com/phosting/converted_ftp_stat_0812121508.tgz
/var/lib/psa/dumps/clients/mydomains/domains/example.com/phosting/converted_error_docs_0812121508.tgz
/var/lib/psa/dumps/clients/mydomains/domains/example.com/phosting/converted_info_0812121508.xml
/var/lib/psa/dumps/clients/mydomains/domains/example.com/phosting/.discovered/converted_info_0812121508
/var/lib/psa/dumps/clients/mydomains/domains/example.com/phosting/converted_webstat_ssl_0812121508.tgz
/var/lib/psa/dumps/clients/mydomains/domains/example.com/phosting/converted_webuser_home_0812121508.tgz
/var/lib/psa/dumps/clients/mydomains/domains/example.com/phosting/converted_private_0812121508.tgz
/var/lib/psa/dumps/clients/mydomains/domains/example.com/phosting/converted_anon_ftpstat_0812121508.tgz
/var/lib/psa/dumps/clients/mydomains/domains/example.com/phosting/converted_docroot_0812121508.tgz
/var/lib/psa/dumps/clients/mydomains/domains/example.com/phosting/converted_cgi_0812121508.tgz
/var/lib/psa/dumps/clients/mydomains/domains/example.com/mailnames/[email protected]/[email protected]_attaches_0812121508.tgz
/var/lib/psa/dumps/clients/mydomains/domains/example.com/mailnames/[email protected]/[email protected]_mailbox_0812121508.tgz
/var/lib/psa/dumps/clients/mydomains/domains/example.com/mailnames/[email protected]/[email protected]_info_0812121508.xml
/var/lib/psa/dumps/clients/mydomains/domains/example.com/mailnames/[email protected]/.discovered/[email protected]_info_0812121508
/var/lib/psa/dumps/clients/mydomains/domains/example.com/.discovered/converted_example.com_info_0812121508
/var/lib/psa/dumps/clients/mydomains/domains/example.com/converted_example.com.com_info_0812121508.xml
/var/lib/psa/dumps/clients/mydomains/.discovered/converted_mydomains_info_0812121508

From the output above it is seen that this is a backup of a client with the login mydomains which owns the domain example.com with the mail account [email protected] . The backup of this client includes the backup of the domain it owns.

Warning: Modifying Plesk backup is not recommended.

The Plesk backup repository is $DUMP_D (the default location is /var/lib/psa/dumps ).

Below are the descriptions of directories corresponding to personal backup…