Feature Suggestions
Please provide here your suggestion for new functionality for Plesk. We encourage you to review and vote for suggestions of others. The top-ranked suggestions are likely to be included in the next versions of Plesk.
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Improve the Backup Manager for when it freezes or aborts when using S3/Scaleway
Plesk should have a native mechanism to detect when a backup job is stuck; helping to manage backups more efficiently without relying on manual intervention.
Plesk should allow backups to automatically resume from the point where they fail, rather than starting from the beginning; saving time and resources, especially for large backups.
3 votesThank you for your input! We will consider this functionality in upcoming releases if it becomes popular.
Everyone, please continue voting for this feature if you consider it important.
-- SH
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Provide option to preserve or restore cron jobs upon backup restoration
Currently a backup restoration will delete cron jobs created after the backup creation. There should be an option to backup/restore or preserve cron jobs as they are.
3 votesThank you for your input! We will consider this functionality in upcoming releases if it becomes popular.
Everyone, please continue voting for this feature if you consider it important.
-- SH
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Configure SFTP storage for backups via CLI
Currently, the plesk bin backup-storage can be used to configure FTP remote storage for backups.
Please implement a similar feature that would allow configuring SFTP remote storage for backups via CLI.
3 votesThank you for your suggestion. We will consider this functionality in upcoming releases if it is popular. Everyone, please continue voting for this feature if you consider it important.
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Backup and restorations should be noted in Plesk's Action log
As the title says, in order to better understand what have happened in Plesk, Backups and restorations should also leave a note in the Action log for Admin to understand what has been done in Plesk.
3 votesThank you for your suggestion. We will consider this functionality in upcoming releases if it is popular. Everyone, please continue voting for this feature if you consider it important.
-- KvD
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3 votes
Thank you for your input! We will consider this functionality in upcoming releases if it becomes popular.
Everyone, please continue voting for this feature if you consider it important.
-- SH
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Manual Lock for Preservation of Specific Backups in Plesk Backup Manager
Introduce a functionality in Plesk Backup Manager that allows users to manually 'lock' specific backups, preventing their automatic deletion during the backup rotation process. This feature would enable administrators to preserve critical backups indefinitely, without the need to move files externally or re-upload them, thereby ensuring essential backups remain accessible and protected within the Plesk ecosystem.
3 votesThank you for your excellent suggestion. We will consider this functionality in upcoming releases if it becomes popular. Everyone, please continue voting for this feature if you consider it important.
-- KvD
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exclude large files from backup
Some customers store large videos for their website,
some of them just zip an entire website for manual backup or download, and keep it in the server storage.
some have wordpress backup plugins that will generate >500Mb files with weird extension.
others just can't understand that a PNG file >50Mb is not good for your website.for the backup/restore functionality,
I Suggest adding the ability to exclude large files.
or even combine large files for specific extension (allow to backup any size of MPG, but exclude ZIP files >20Mb)currently, it is possible to exclude by extensions, but PNG and…
3 votesThank you for your idea! We will consider this functionality in upcoming releases if it will be popular.
Everyone, please continue voting for this feature if you consider it important.
A workaround for some cases could be to place large files in separate directories and then to exclude these directories from the backup. Nevertheless we get the idea of this request to filter them from all directories by size.,
-- PD
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Verify backups using checksum instead of partial file download
FTP backups are verified using the download of part of the file, however some hosts do not support partial file download. It would be good to allow verification using some other method such as fle checksum.
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Support for MEGA backup
The MEGA software development kit is here https://mega.io/developers
3 votesThank you for your idea! We will consider this functionality in upcoming releases if it will be popular. However, the normal procedure for integration of third-party platforms with Plesk are extensions. These should be developed by the vendors who want to integrate their product with Plesk. Many other storage platforms already have developed extensions for Plesk, so Mega could do the same using the free API toolkit: https://docs.plesk.com/en-US/obsidian/extensions-guide/plesk-extensions-basics/how-to-create-and-install-extensions.76094/
-- PD
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Limit number of local backups when option 'Both server storage and FTP(S) storage' is used
Add more customization to the Backup Manager > Schedule > Both server storage and FTP(S) storage, e.g.:
Create a limited number of backups on server storage (option to indicate the number of the backup specifically for local storage), in order to save disk space3 votesThis is a valid request, so we'll look into it. There is no ETA at the moment, but we would really appreciate you voting for this request so that we can accurately assess its popularity relative to other features.
Thanks in advance!
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Ability to configure cloud storage extensions via CLI/API
It is required to have ability to configure cloud backup configuration (set users, specify type and locations) via CLI/API to automate and speed up process. For example, Amazon S3 extension
3 votesThank you for your input! We will consider this functionality in upcoming releases if it is popular. Everyone, please continue voting for this feature if you consider it important.
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Add possibility to restore all databases in Backup manager at once
It is required to restore all databases for all subscriptions at once. Backup manager allows to restore only databases for particular subscription. If there are more than 30 subscriptions it is very time consuming to do it manually.
3 votesThank you for your input! We will consider this functionality in upcoming releases if it will be popular. Everyone, please continue voting for this feature if you consider it important.
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Remove Local Backups Automatically after a Restoration
When you want to Restore a Backup from FTP, first this backup it's downloaded to the Local Plesk Server and then the restoration starts.
At the end of the restoration process, the Local Backup it's still there, maybe it's better to save this space deleting this Local Backup and maintain only the FTP backup which was downloaded.
3 votesThank you for your input! We will consider this functionality in upcoming releases if it will be popular.
Everyone, please continue voting for this feature if you consider it important.—
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Set a permitted time period to the customers to schedule their backups
Add the ability to restrict customers to schedule their backups only during a specific time.
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Allow Customers to create scheduled website database dumps on their own
At the moment, Customer accounts in Plesk can create database dumps manually, however they do not have the necessary access to schedule the specific creation of such website database dumps.
That task is also not possible via a cron job, because the mysqldump command requires root access, which the Customer account does not possess.
Website database dumps can be created only manually via the Plesk GUI while using the steps in the https://support.plesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/12388279759255-How-to-export-a-website-database-in-Plesk article.
It would e very helpful to include the ability to create scheduled website database dumps while logged in as a Customer.
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Restore all domains (subscriptions) from a full backup, avoiding emails and mailboxes
Make it possible to restore all domains (subscriptions) from a full backup, avoiding emails and mailboxes.
2 votesThank you for your suggestion. We will consider this functionality in upcoming releases if it is popular. Everyone, please continue voting for this feature if you consider it important.
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Allow separate locations for customer/server backups
Add an option to store local backups created by customers in a different path than the ones created at the server level.
2 votesThank you for your suggestion. We will consider this functionality in upcoming releases if it is popular. Everyone, please continue voting for this feature if you consider it important.
-- KvD
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Add a way to automatically restart scheduled backups in case they fail
In case a scheduled backup fails, users have to wait until the next execution date. Please add a customizable timeframe for restarting a scheduled backup ahead of time in case the current execution has failed
2 votesThank you for your idea! We will consider this functionality in upcoming releases if it will be popular. Everyone, please continue voting for this feature if you consider it important.
-- KvD
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Database views should be saved and restored correctly
Backup and restore does not work correctly when database contain views.
This should be fixed.
2 votesThank you for your suggestion. We will consider this functionality in upcoming releases if it is popular. Everyone, please continue voting for this feature if you consider it important.
-- KvD
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Ability to specify sse_c_key for S3 backups on the plesk side.
Ability to specify sseckey for S3 backups on the plesk side.
2 votesThank you for your suggestion. We will consider this functionality in upcoming releases if it is popular. Everyone, please continue voting for this feature if you consider it important.
-- KvD
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