What Plesk Data Is Backed Up and Restored

What Plesk Data Is Backed Up And Restored

The following data can be backed up and subsequently restored by Plesk Backup/Restore utilities:

Plesk control panel configuration and Plesk server settings:

• System settings
  • Plesk IP addresses pool
  • Plesk license key
• Plesk services configuration
  • DNS zone templates
  • Mail preferences
  • ODBC settings
  • Plesk scheduler configuration, including scheduled tasks with their parameters
  • IIS application pool configuration and usage policy settings
  • SSL certificates
  • Shared SSL settings
  • Default domain skeleton
  • Server application settings

    Note: Only the settings of server applications are backed up and restored, not the server applications themselves.

  • Site application settings (Application Vault)

    Note: Only the settings of site applications are backed up and restored, not the site applications themselves.

  • Acronis True Image scheduled backup settings
  • Spam-filter settings
• Control panel settings
  • Control panel logo settings
  • Session settings
  • Control panel preferences and system preferences
  • Inferface management preferences
  • Notification settings
  • Action Log settings
  • Event Manager configuration
  • Inferface skins
  • Custom buttons
• Plesk Administrator preferences
  • Control panel Administrator personal settings
  • Control panel access policy configuration
• Plesk Administrator templates
  • Client templates
  • Domain templates

Client settings and data:

• Personal settings
• CP interface settings
• Report and report delivery settings
• Limits and permissions
• IP addresses pool
• Site applications (Application Vault) pool
• IIS application pool settings
• Default domain skeleton for all client domains
• Control Panel logo
• Custom buttons
• Domain Templates
• Traffic usage statistics

Domain settings and data:

• General domain settings
  • Domain user settings (including CP interface settings, personal information and permissions)
  • Report and report delivery settings
  • Domain preferences
  • Domain limits
  • Domain aliases
  • Domain backup settings (including backup schedule settings and FTP connection settings)
  • Custom buttons
• Domain services configuration
  • Mail configuration (including mail accounts, their settings and messages in the mailboxes)

    Note: If you are restoring to a Plesk installation with a different mail server, messages in the mailboxes will not be restored.

  • Mailing lists and their settings
  • DNS configuration
  • MySQL databases
  • Microsoft SQL Server databases

    Note: Only local Microsoft SQL Server databases can be backed up and restored. If remote Microsoft SQL Server databases are used, only their configuration can be backed up and restored.

  • Domain SSL certificates
  • Tomcat Java application list and applications themselves
  • ODBC settings
• Hosting configuration
  • Physical hosting configuration
  • Web users and their settings
  • Subdomains list
  • Web directories protection
  • Virtual directories and their settings
  • Domain-wide MIME types configuration (MIME type settings for individual directories are not backed up and restored)
  • Domain-wide error documents configuration (Error documents configuration for individual directories is not backed up and restored)
  • Anonymous FTP settings
  • Log rotation preferences
  • Scheduled tasks
  • Installed Site Applications and their preferences
  • Installed ASP.NET web applications and their preferences
  • Performance settings
  • IIS application pool settings
  • Shared SSL settings
  • Hotlink protection settings
  • Domain home directory, excluding log files
  • Standard and frame forwarding settings (IP address and destination URL)
• Subdomain settings and data
  • Subdomain hosting configuration
  • Web directories protection
  • Virtual directories and their settings
  • Subdomain-wide MIME types configuration (MIME type settings for individual directories are not backed up and restored)
  • Subdomain-wide error documents configuration (Error documents configuration for individual directories is not backed up and restored)
  • Installed Site Applications and their preferences
  • Installed ASP.NET web applications and their preferences
  • Shared SSL settings
  • Hotlink protection settings
• Interface skins

By default, Plesk Backup utility is set to back up everything from the list above, excluding interface skins.

What Plesk Data Is Not Backed Up And Restored

The following data is not backed up (and, accordingly, not restored) by Plesk Backup/Restore Utilities:

• Server Applications (only their settings are backed up and restored)
• Default Site Applications available for installation in Application Vault
• Help Desk configuration and data
• Firewall settings
• MySQL and Microsoft SQL databases connection settings
• Default ASP.NET application packages available for installation in ASP.NET Web Applications
• SiteBuilder configuration and data
• ASP.NET server-wide settings
• MIME types configuration for each directory
• Error documents configuration for each directory
• Messages in the mailboxes, if you are restoring to a Plesk installation with a different mail server