Originally posted by GlobalPN
RPM 5.0.5 allready contains the backup utility along with it correct? I've been told this by RackShack people and would just like to clarify it once again. Thanks NightHawk you saved us all .

Originally posted by GlobalPN
ok, is there a tutorial on how to install this using ssh? Also how would I delete the current one I made?

Originally posted by GlobalPN
How do you exit the vi? I have tried to do this but have not been successful. Thanks for your help with everything.

Originally posted by Gentle Giant
Thanks for this - getting a message when running that says...

Some errors can be occured during restoration hosting directories or mailnames because --tar-ignore-failed_read and --nostop keys was used at the same time.

Anything to be concerned about?

Originally posted by Gentle Giant
Also (unless I am being thick!)

In the restore you say  

cd /pasdumps

I assume you mean

cd /psadumps

yet in the original backup the dumps are done to the root in /dump1 /dump2 /dump3

Just wondering if we have the odd typo.

Take care.

Originally posted by nacarls
ugh sorry for the fuss but i hit another problem.  

Unable to add a system user ''username'':Error: empty argument HomeDir
Error occured during preparation for the object restoring.
Unable to retrieve necessary info on the destination directory location for the content restoring for object domain.

Im assuming this is due to the useradd commands and they are not set in the dump file correctly. Any way to fix this? It looks like the database has been installed successfully and just hangs after the users are failed. thanks for the help

Originally posted by nacarls
NightHawk,  

I do have a tarball of the entire psa directory. If i was to just extract this somewhere else theoretically couldnt I just mv the domain folder into the /usr/local/psa/home/vhosts/ folder minding that i stay away from default and webmail? The databases were setup correct...but the users were not. Quite frankly I have done something I didnt want to do...I became a statistic. Any help would deeply be appreciated at the point in time.

Originally posted by nacarls
my problem is this...the back didnt work. Which really burst my bubbles. If i reinstall the 2.5.5 standard and use my tar file to restore. would my plesk key still be on it?

Originally posted by nacarls
do you happen to know the download link for the plesk 2.5* versions? I know i can get the patches from teh mebers area of plesk but have been unable to find the full install. Any help on this again would be appreciated.

[edit]

The plesk support team has brought to my knowledge that my back will not be compatible with the plesk 5.0 install. So the idea of uninstalling plesk 2.5.5 completely then installing plesk 5.0 and trying to restore was not a good idea . So, I am going to have to try to find my way back to the 2.5 version somewhow and hopefully upgrade to 5.0 without uninstalling plesk 2.5.5 What a nightmare.

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Originally posted by nacarls
From what the support guys said, Plesk 2.5.x backup utils are not compatable with the psa 5.0.x backup utils. So, your data must be on the machine in order for it to transfer over. My problem here was thast I backed up from 2.5 then removed everything like you suggested. Then made a clean install of 5.0 standard(staid standard to standard) then tried to restore the data. But since the psa 5.0 utils are not compatable I had to remove 5.0 reinstall 2.5 then restore the data then upgrade to 5.0. With a clean install of 2.5 I was able to upgrade without any problems. Thanks for the help.

Originally posted by MattKD
Hi,

Thanks so much for this posting, I am trying out the script right now, it is in the process of backing up my server...does it backup E-Mail boxes as well as vhosts and the databases?

My Main question was do you know how to modify this script or add a new script that will upload the backup dumps that it creats to a specific FTP account etc?

Thanks for any help!

Regards, Matt

Originally posted by MattKD
Thanks so much for your help I really appreciate it..!

The backup since completed, split into 1gb files etc as it should, I will look around for the FTP part of the script to see what I can find.

Thanks again,

Matt

Chapter 4. Distributed backup and restore
Table of Contents

Backing up from the remote computer
Restoring from the remote computer
Simultaneous backup/restore
The distributed backup and restore are the option provided by the psadump and psarestore utilities. These utilities can be used in a fashion, which allows to back up a PSA server creating the dump-file on the disk of a remote computer as well as to restore a PSA server using the dump-file stored at the remote computer.

Backing up from the remote computer
The psadump utility can be used the following way to for backing up the remote PSA server information storing the dump-file at the local machine. This can be done, for instance, to provide the regular server backup.

ssh root@remotehost '/usr/local/psa/bin/psadump -f - --nostop' | split -b1000m - dump.  

NOTE
Please use caution when executing a backup with the --nostop parameter. See the details of using --nostop in order to avoid possible complications.

The backup of PSA can take up a considerable amount of disk space at the server. Using this technique you are both: saving the disk space at the server and placing the dump-file at a different location, which enhances the security of the backed up information.

Restoring from the remote computer
The psarestore utility much similar to the psadump utility allows executing remote restore operation. In this case the remote dump-file is used to restore PSA at the local server.

ssh root@remotehost 'cat /root/psa_backup/dump.*' | /usr/local/psa/bin/psarestore -f - -m my_ip_map_file -s my_shells_map_file  

This, like the above technique, is useful when you are unable or choose not to store the dump-file at the same machine with PSA.

Simultaneous backup/restore
Combining the two previously described techniques allow to execute the simultaneous backup/restore of a PSA server. This could be very useful when you need to work (make an upgrade or a similar operation) on your machine that is currently employed under PSA but you wish to decrease the idle time as much as possible. In such case you can simply enough migrate PSA from one machine to another.

ssh root@remotehost '/usr/local/psa/bin/psadump -f - --nostop' | /usr/local/psa/bin/psarestore -f - -m my_ip_map_file -s my_shells_map_file  

Originally posted by paulz
Possibly a stupid newbie question?

Considering I dont need to backup too frequently  
would it be possible using ssh have root push  Dump1 backup files to my home machine or is there any other method to do this?

Regards

Paul

Originally posted by MattKD
Hey...

Is there a way to extract individual sitesfiles etc from the plesk backups...?

Assume I have a site www.mysite.com and I want to restore the most recent version but leave everything else untouched is there a way to look inside my backup files and extract the relevant data?

Regards, Matt

Originally posted by NightHawk
as long as your home box is linux ...so that it accepts ssh connections...sure...or if you have a ftp server, then just use ftp to transfer them.

Originally posted by md3v
Hi,

Are these scripts current and/or will they work with the PSA Backup Utilities just released for Plesk 6.01?

Thanks

Originally posted by autoquartz
Do I need to add this to my Crontab Manager in Plesk to have it automatically run every day?  Thanks.

Originally posted by MattKD
Hi Again,

Not sure if anyone is interested but here is some code that will perform the automatic FTP upload of your dump files...if required...

ftp -n ftp.backupserver.net <user username password
binary
prompt
mput *
quit



mput is set to * because the only files in my dump directory are the backup ones...if you need to change the port you can do so after the ftp address by leaving a space then putting the port number...Also if you are not already in your backup directory you can change to it with cd /dump1 before the mput.

Hope this is of interest to someone..!

Matt

Interactive mode off.
Permission denied.

Originally posted by nacarls
you must give the script the execute priveledge ....

chmod 755 filename

this should take care fo teh problem. Also this script might require being run as root...although im not positive....depnds on the owner id imagine.