Plesk Backup Command Line

[datzis]

Hey

I trie to backup the hole Plesk and I want to exlclude domains!

Is this right command right? because it is not working!

/opt/psa/bin/pleskbackup -v all exclude=*******.de /home/pleskbackup_test

Thanks for help!

 

[datzis]

Nobody knows anything?

 

[padani]

Hello ,

This is a forum here people voluntarly help others .So it would be inappropriate to say others ddin know the answers.

Any way try with

--exclude Specifies the items (domain names or clients' login names separated with white spaces) that should not be backed up.

 

[datzis]

I did it now like this:

/opt/psa/bin/pleskbackup -v all --exclude=test.de /home/pleskbackup_test

Than he says: unknown option: exclude

 

[padani]

it should work .I have did this 1001 times .
1)check the backup module rpm is installed
2)or check the pleskbackup binary is there in the bin directory

 

[datzis]

Thanks for you help so far!

I checked the 2 Points and there are fine!

I am doing Backups with pleskbackup now for a while!
normaliy I do it this way:
/opt/psa/bin/pleskbackup all ftp://???????:??????????@??????????.de/pleskbackup_test
And its working just fine!! Is backups the hole plesk und I restored once with pleskrestore and it worked!

But now I have one Domain I dont wont to backup up! Just one! And this time I used this line:
/opt/psa/bin/pleskbackup -v all --exclude=???????.de /home/pleskbackup_test

The error is: "Unknown option: exclude"
Why is the command "exclude" for him a error?
in "/opt/psa/bin/pleskbackup --help" he is saying me I can do this!
Is my commandline wrong?
/opt/psa/bin/pleskbackup -v all --exclude=???????.de /home/pleskbackup_test

 

[datzis]

Is still not working?

/opt/psa/bin/pleskbackup -v all --exclude=???????.de /home/pleskbackup_test

Whats wrong?

 

[JLChafardet]

[root@heracles ~]# /usr/local/psa/bin/pleskbackup --help
Usage: pleskbackup [<global-options>] <command> [<FTP options>] [<local-options>] <arguments>
<output-file>

Global options:
-v|--verbose
Show more information about backup process. Multiple -v
options increase verbosity.

-c|--configuration
Backup only configuration of objects, not the content.

-s|--split[=<size>]
Split the generated backups to the parts. Parts are numbered
by appending .NNN suffixes, starting with .001.

Size may be specified in kilobytes (<nn>K), megabytes (<nn>M)
and gigabytes (<nn>G).

'-s' option without argument selects default split size:
2 gigabytes.

-z|--no-gzip Do not compress backup file

Commands:
all Backs up whole Plesk.

clients Backs up selected clients. Clients are read from command line,
space-separated. If no clients provided, backs up all clients
on the host.

domains Backs up selected domains. Domains are read from command line,
space-separated. If no domains provided, backs up all domains
on the host.

Options --exclude and --exclude-file may be specified for
excluding some clients/domains.

help Shows this help page

FTP options:
--ftp-login=<ftp_login>
Specify the FTP login
--ftp-password=<ftp_password>
Specify the FTP password (used with '--ftp-login')

Local options:
-f|--from-file=<file>
Read list of domains/clients from file, not from command line.
File should contain list of domains/clients one per line.

--exclude=<obj1>,<obj2>,...
Excludes listed domains/clients from backup list.

--exclude-file=<file>
Excludes domains/clients listed in file from backup list.
File should contain list of domains/clients one per line.

--skip-logs Do not save log files in the backup file

Output file:
/fullpath/filename - regular file,

- - use stdout for output,

ftp://[<login>[:<password>]@]<server>/<filepath> - storing the backup to ftp server.
FTP_PASSWORD environment variable can be used for setting password.
FTP option '--ftp-login' can be used for setting login.
FTP option '--ftp-password' (with '--ftp-login') can be used for setting password.

[root@heracles ~]#


based on that, you should check the online documentation to see if there is something that you are missing.

 

[JLChafardet]

I just tried myself to see

[root@heracles server]# /usr/local/psa/bin/pleskbackup -v all exclude=domaintoexclude.com backup_aug_23_2008
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Backup started (X client(s), YYY domain(s))
Start date: Sat Aug 23 23:06:23 2008
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Phase 1/2: collecting information
..............................
..............................
..............................
Phase 2/2: packing data

I'll update when finished, will take some time to finish.

 

[JLChafardet]

so check your command, i just went again through the whole post, and i noticed you use "--exclude" when should be "exclude" without the "--"

Give a try without the -- and should work.

my backup is still running tho, so I cant post my backup output just yet.

 

[JLChafardet]

ok for me worked

try it without the --
[root@heracles server]# /usr/local/psa/bin/pleskbackup -v all exclude=domaintoexclude.com backup_aug_23_2008
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Backup started (X client(s), YYY domain(s))
Start date: Sat Aug 23 23:06:23 2008
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Phase 1/2: collecting information
..............................
..............................
..............................
Phase 2/2: packing data
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Backup finished.
Finish date: Sun Aug 24 03:57:04 2008
------------------------------------------------------------------------
[root@heracles server]#

 

[pippin]

whats the command line for restore the domains?

 

[JLChafardet]

you should seriously consider reading the manual

http://download1.swsoft.com/Plesk/Plesk8.6/Doc/en-US/plesk-8.6-unix-backup-restore-guide/index.htm

regards,

 

[OZyryanov]

Hello!
This problem (with --exclude option) will be fixed soon. The hotfix is being prepared.
Tnanks.

 

[datzis]

/usr/local/psa/bin/pleskbackup -v all exclude=domaintoexclude.com backup_aug_23_2008

I did it now exactly this way!

/usr/local/psa/bin/pleskbackup -v all exclude=mydomain.de backup_aug_23_2008

But he still includes the domain "mydomain.de" in the backup!!

And I did

/usr/local/psa/bin/pleskbackup -v all backup_aug_23_2008_2

And it is the same size like the backup before.....

 

[OZyryanov]

Please read this!!!

This problem (with --exclude option) will be fixed soon. The hotfix is being prepared.

Tnanks.

 

[datzis]

ok! I will wait!

Just wondered that it worked with JLChafardet

 Hoppe the hotfix is coming sooooooon

 

[datzis]

Hey all its me again! Greetings from Germany

I installed the hotfix and the command --exclude is working now, but I have still the same problem!

If I make a normal backup with this commandline:

/opt/psa/bin/pleskbackup -v all /home/pleskbackup_test

the backup is ~4.3GB large! So far so good

Than I use this commandline to exlude one Domain with the size of ~1.4GB

/opt/psa/bin/pleskbackup -v all --exclude=mydomain.com /home/pleskbackup_test

And the result is, that this backup file is the size of ~4.3GB!
Its the same size like the bakcup without the exclude command!

Pleskbackup is not showing any error or so he is just not excluding anything....

Is anybody seeing a error in my tought? Can it be that by pleskbackup file on the root is coruppted?

 

[JLChafardet]

ok! I will wait!

Just wondered that it worked with JLChafardet

 Hoppe the hotfix is coming sooooooon

indeed for me it worked i removed from the backup a domain that is about 9 gb, the difference is file size, is noticeable.

 

[datzis]

But is not working for me! Perhaps someone can send me the pleskbackup file via email than I can replace my file on the root! I dont know why this is not working!
Email: info@onlineforyou.de

Thanks