Backing Up Your Data

To back up all data, including server and control panel configuration, remote database servers, license keys, user accounts, Web sites, databases, and mailboxes with e-mail messages, run the command:

/plesk_installation_directory/bin/pleskbackup --all <backup file name>

To back up all user accounts with all users' sites, run the command:

/plesk_installation_directory/bin/pleskbackup --clients <backup file name>

To back up all sites hosted on server without storing details for each client account, run the command:

/plesk_installation_directory/bin/pleskbackup --domains <backup file name>

To back up selected user accounts with web sites:

Create a text file and list there the control panel login names of the clients whose accounts you wish to back up, one login name per line. For example:
client1

client2
Save the file.
Run the command /plesk_installation_directory/bin/pleskbackup --clients <backup file name> -list <file name>
where <file name> is the file listing the objects you wish to backup that you created at the step 1.

To back up selected web sites:

Create a text file and list there the domain names of the sites that you wish to back up, one domain name per line. For example:
domain1.com

domain2.com
Save the file.
Run the command /plesk_installation_directory/bin/pleskbackup --domains <backup file name> -list <file name>
where <file name> is the file listing the objects you wish to backup that you created at the step 1.

To back up a specific user account with all user's web sites, run the command:

echo 'client's login name' | /plesk_installation_directory/bin/pleskbackup --clients <backup file name> -list -

To back up a specific web site, run the command:

echo 'domain name' | /plesk_installation_directory/bin/pleskbackup --domains <backup file name> -list -

Table 1. Pleskbackup utility commands and options.


Available commands
Command	Arguments and Syntax	Description
`--all`	`backup file name`	Backs up all data related to your installation of Plesk and saves them into file under the specified name
`--clients`	`backup file name`	Backs up all data related to all or selected client accounts (including web sites) and saves them to file under the specified name. For a selective backup of client accounts, compile a list of client accounts, save it in a file, and then use the --clients option together with the -list <file name> argument.
`--domains`	`backup file name`	Backs up all data related to hosted domains/web sites and saves them to file under the specified name. For a selective backup of domains/web sites, compile a list of domain names, save it in a file, and then use the --domains option together with the -list <file name> argument.
`--help or -h`		displays the available commands and options
Available options
`-no-content`		Backs up only settings related to control panel, without the content of sites, mailboxes or databases.
`-only-mail`		Archives only content of mailboxes.
`-list`	`file name`	Specifies the path to file that contains a list of objects (client accounts or domain names) that you prepared for a selective backup. You can use the -list argument with hyphen instead of file name, if you wish the pleskbackup utility to read data from stdin. For example: `echo 'domain.com' \| pleskbackup --domains <backup file name> -list -`
`-list`	`file name`		`-verbose`	displays backup progress