Backup with VSS

[vertices]

Running Plesk 8.2 on Windows Server 2003. I'm trying to develop a good backup plan. I know many have had problems with the builtin backup tool.

What I've got going on now is Mozypro. It uses VSS to grab all open files including DB files and then backs them up to their servers. So if I have this application backing up the C:\Program Files\SWSoft as well as C:\Inetpub directories, will this be enough to fully restore Plesk if the server fails?

Thanks.

 

[ailll]

well it depends on where your plesk data are located
this can be custom

typically, to restore plesk manually it is necessary to backup

1. plesk psa database
2. IIS sites contents (%plesk_vhosts%)
3. plesk directory (%plesk_dir%)
4. mail server data
5. sql servers data

if you have sql servers installed via plesk and mailenable then 4 and 5 also should be all in%plesk_dir%

but if you have installed custom sql or customized mysql paths or have smartermail then it should be different paths...

 

[vertices]

Thank you.

Yes I've confirmed that all of the data you mentioned is contained in the paths I specified. So in theory, if I reimaged the server to the default state with all software like Plesk installed, then simply stopped the services, restored all the files backed up using VSS, then started services, all would be good to go?

 

[ailll]

actually, the data i wrote is enough to restore the server but procedure is not that easy.

you will need to

1. Restore plesk psa database
2. Restore plesk databases (customers' ones)
3. Copy all the updated data i wrote above
4. Update configuration of iis, mail,dns servers from newly restored plesk db:

cd %plesk_bin%
dnsmng update *
ftpmng --reconfigure-all
websrvmng --reconfigure-all
mchk