How do I restore a single domain from backup zip?

[mikelegg]

Can someone please tell me in plain English how to restore a single domain from the backup zip archive on my remote (FTP) server?

I've tried to read the doco here http://download1.parallels.com/Plesk/PPP9/Doc/en-US/plesk-9.2-backup-cli-guide/ but I can't work out exactly what it means.

I've sort of pieced together that I have to make an xml file that defines the data I want, then there seems to be a text file that names the domain and I pass them as parameters to the pleskrestore.exe utility.

It's all very unclear.

 

[IgorG]

What exactly the problem with this sample from documentation?

pleskrestore --restore <backup repository root>/<server>.xml -level domains -filter list:example.com

 

[mikelegg]

What exactly the problem with this sample from documentation?

pleskrestore --restore <backup repository root>/<server>.xml -level domains -filter list:example.com

My backup files are on a remote FTP server, not the local web server. How do I tell the progam where to find the zip file?

 

[mikelegg]

What exactly the problem with this sample from documentation?

pleskrestore --restore <backup repository root>/<server>.xml -level domains -filter list:example.com

Once I stopped trying to read the documentation and went straight to the commands and options summary, I was able to work out that was the command options to use.

Unfortunately, it returned the error - "Unable to read file 'server_datetime.zip'" which makes sense because the zip file isn't on the local server it's on a remote FTP server.

 

[mikelegg]

From what I can gather so far, the ACTUAL steps that need to be taken to restore a single domain from a remote FTP Plesk backup are:

1. Copy the backup zip back to the Plesk server. If the file is large, don't bother trying to use the Plesk backup manager to do it - it doesn't work. Instead, install an FTP client and copy the file manually.

2. Open a CMD prompt and navigate to C:\Program Files\Parallels\Plesk\bin (or whereever your Plesk bin folder is located)

3. Execute the following command - pleskrestore --restore "C:\Program Files\Parallels\Plesk\Backup\yourbackupfile.zip" -level domains -filter list:yourdomain.com

The quotes around the restore path are only required if any of the folder names have spaces in them such as "Program Files"

As I type this, I have executed the above command but all that has happened is that the command prompt has frozen.

I can see in task manager that pleskrestore.exe is in memory but it is using 0% of CPU resources, so I don't know what it's doing, but what I can say for sure is that the domain has NOT been restored.

I'll give it some time and post the results.

Any comments from people who have been able to get this to work are welcome.

 

[IgorG]

3. Execute the following command - pleskrestore --restore "C:\Program Files\Parallels\Plesk\Backup\yourbackupfile.zip" -level domains -filter list:yourdomain.com

Do you have any output of this command?

 

[mikelegg]

Do you have any output of this command?

There was no output on the command line, is there a log file somewhere that records the output?

 

[mikelegg]

I'll try it again and see what happens.

What should I expect to see at the command prompt?

 

[IgorG]

I've tried again and worked.

Hooray!

Did you tried the same command? Is there really all was correctly restored?

 

[mikelegg]

Did you tried the same command? Is there really all was correctly restored?

It appears to have all restored correctly.