Backing Up Account and Websites

To back up all data related to your account and all your subscriptions:

1. If you have access to several subscriptions, select the required subscription in the Subscription box at the top of the screen. Or, to view sites of all your subscriptions, select All subscriptions.
2. Go to the Account tab > Back Up My Account and Websites > Back Up.
3. Specify the following:
   • Backup file name prefix and description. You cannot specify an arbitrary file name, however, you can set Plesk to add a prefix to backup file names. Note that Plesk automatically adds the date and time of backup file creation (in Universal Time) to backup file names.
   • Splitting of the backup file. To create a multivolume backup, select the corresponding checkbox and specify volume size in megabytes.
   • Location where to store the backup file. Select the repository where you would like to store the backup file.
   • Email notification on backup completion. If you want to be notified of the backup completion, type your email address.
   • What data to back up. You can back up only the account settings or account settings and all data (including databases).
   • Suspend domains until backup task is completed. Select this option to prohibit users from making changes to content or settings of websites while they are being backed up.

     Note: If you select this option, then, after restoring the data from this backup file, you will need to manually switch on every domain alias for every site that needs to have domain aliases. This can be done at Websites & Domains tab > domain alias name > Switch On.

4. Click Back Up.

When backing up is finished, the backup file will be saved to the repository you selected.

To back up all websites related to a subscription:

1. Go to the Account tab > Back Up Websites > Back Up.
2. Specify the following:
   • Backup file name prefix and description. You cannot specify an arbitrary file name, however, you can set Plesk to add a prefix to backup file names. Note that Plesk automatically adds the date and time of backup file creation (in Universal Time) to backup file names.
   • Splitting of the backup file. To create a multivolume backup, select the corresponding checkbox and specify volume size in megabytes.
   • Location where to store the backup file. Select the repository where you would like to store the backup file.
   • Email notification on backup completion. If you want to be notified of the backup completion, type your email address.
   • What data to back up. You can choose to back up:
     • Only settings of websites.
     • All settings and data with or without mail accounts and messages in mailboxes.
     • Only mail accounts with messages.
   • Suspend domains until backup task is completed. Select this option to prohibit users from making changes to content or settings of websites while they are being backed up.

     Note: If you select this option, then, after restoring the data from this backup file, you will need to manually switch on every domain alias for every site that needs to have domain aliases. This can be done at Websites & Domains tab > domain alias name > Switch On.

3. Click Back Up.

When backing up is finished, the backup file will be saved to the repository you selected.