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  1. 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 votes

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  2. Feature Suggestion for Easier Website Migration Process

    Dear Plesk Support Team,

    I appreciate your response to my recent query. I understand that server-specific issues need to be handled by the hosting provider, but I’d like to take this opportunity to suggest a feature enhancement for Plesk.

    During my recent experience, I faced challenges while trying to migrate an old .aspx website from the main domain to a subdomain and shift a WordPress website from a subdomain to the main domain. This process was more complex than expected, and it would be helpful if Plesk could offer a more user-friendly or automated tool for such domain and subdomain…

    2 votes

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    Thank you for your input, Syed. We are sorry to hear you faced difficulties during the migration process. As Plesk is control panel with primary focus on web hosting and server management, introducing a module that will convert a website from one framework/application to another falls out of scope as this is mainly code-related and typically handled by web developers. Still, we would like to hear your feedback on what aspects you found inconvenient and how you would like the overall process to be improved. If you can provide us with precise examples so we can get clear understanding it will be highly appreciated. Thank you in advance.

    -- SH

  3. Adhoc Backup Location

    When using the Plesk mobile application please provide an ability to put an adhoc backup to a defined location, rather than allowing the backup to reside in the default location of the active databases.

    1 vote

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  4. MIgration of Backups to Cheaper Alternatives

    While you provide the ability to backup to different locations, whether on local disk, FTP, SMB share, or cloud you do not provide an ability to migrate backups through the tiers. First off local disk is the most expensive and you should only keep a small subset of backups. After that there should be an ability to migrate those backups to cheaper alternatives, like S3 storage, while continuing to preserve the metadata.

    1 vote

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  5. 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 votes

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  6. 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 votes

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  7. 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.

    2 votes

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  8. 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 votes

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  9. Plesk Backup & Restore IV - protocol functionality

    Plesk Backup & Restore IV

    I personally think it's better to save all backup logs in a MariaDB / mySQL database table so that I can search for problems there later. So searchable logs with timestamps and users per domain / all domains, sometimes also by topic such as "email" / "database" / "files" / "configuration"

    1 vote

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  10. Plesk Backup & Restore Part II

    Plesk Backup & Restore

    In my opinion, it makes no sense to import a backup where the software only "Only the configuration of the selected objects" means that if you click the wrong button, the database data can no longer be imported.

    The databases have to be deleted manually in order to then select the correct setting "Configuration and contents of the selected objects". There is no setting to "Overwrite configuration and contents".

    1 vote

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  11. 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 votes

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  12. Database views should be saved and restored correctly

    Backup and restore does not work correctly when database contain views.

    This should be fixed.

    2 votes

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  13. Plesk Backup & Restore III - Wrong Option

    The output during import in any combination whether "database only", "files only", "configuration only" is really insufficient, no information is passed on, e.g. the individual steps mentioned above, when importing a "domain" the domains all run as above, but for which task and how far the individual task is completely missing. Perhaps the old progress bar should be kept and another one should be shown where the individual steps are carried out, the more details the better.

    At the end after the import, unfortunately you can only see the "date and time" and not what was imported at all. I'm…

    1 vote

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  14. Please Provide Better Notification Capabilities

    Plesk needs a full featured notification solution, so users can customize what notifications they want to see, from whatever service is running on Plesk. For example the Plesk backups only allow for notification if the backup fails. Why not have a notification for either situation, success or failure. This is what I am referring to when I say the notifications need to be more robust.

    1 vote

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  15. 3 votes

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  16. Provide option to include the warnings on a backup task, alongside errors

    there is the option "If errors occur during the execution of this backup task, send a notification email to..." but the notification is sent only when the backup is not successful at all. It does not include warnings.

    4 votes

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  17. Make it possible to create a backup on a NFS partition

    Make it possible to create a backup on a NFS partition

    1 vote

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  18. Add Storage Location to DB Copy Functionality

    Currently the db copy functionality only allows for a default location that is where the db server is located. I would ask that you provide the ability to add a second predetermined location that is just a storage location and not associated with the db server. This allows us to keep the db server storage clean.

    1 vote

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  19. 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 votes

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  20. 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 votes

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    Thank 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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