Ill go to the point. I need to backup my clients data. Including files, data bases, emails, client info and passwords.

I know this is a frequent question but the more i look the more confused i get. My server is acting up, and i want to take precautions and i am sure all admins do.

So i need to make full backup of users data. In the event that i have to do a restore on server, all i have to do is import all data to the server.

If there is a way, and plz not to complidcated (i am not a veteran in server knowledge) it would be very helpful for all Plesk users to know.

I have tries TAR backups but only get user files, i have tried plesk backups also, but misses passwords and client info. What would be the RIGHT way to go about doing this backup?

What version of plesk do you have?

PSA has it own Backup command utilities, psabackup/restore, you should use them... they are backing up everything (except, i think, current mail files, but you can backup them easily with rsync...).

We are doing daily backups from our Plesk server via psadump AND our db/files dumps.

Good luck.

Nighthawk started a (now rather long) thread here that details how to set up daily backups. It works well for us in creating the backups and pulling them to a local machine.

I am running Plesk 7.5 on VPS. I will look at the nighthawk link. I am just not very knowledagle in this matter, anyone that would like to help?

"PSA has it own Backup command utilities, psabackup/restore, you should use them... they are backing up everything (except, i think, current mail files, but you can backup them easily with rsync...).

We are doing daily backups from our Plesk server via psadump AND our db/files dumps."

Sounds very nice REXADMIN, does it also backup password files and clients database with plans etc...

Yes, everything. It is full backup of your Plesk server...

Good luck

I have been using dump/restore from the shell quite successfully and then putting the files on the backup solution via ftp -- works well and is the whole machine. I have never gotten the Plesk backups to do what I want -- Plesk can't even figure out which files are in my domains so I don't trust it that much. This of course requires another hard disk to work simply.

Hope this helps.