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.
Please write in English so that voters from all over the world can read and support your request.
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Exclude yarn .cache folder from backup by default on scheduled backups
The .cache folder takes up a lot of (unnecessary) backup space.
1 voteIt is possible to "exclude specific files from backup" using this option in the scheduled and manual backup configuration. If you are experiencing issues with this option, please open a support ticket with Plesk support so that staff can assist you in solving the task.
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Backup restoration - all databases of a subscription affected
Hello,
Would be a good UX/UI improvement to get informed that ALL databases of all domains under the subscription would be restored in case the subscription restored from the backup. (all configuration and content)
2 votesFrom the comments we understand that it is desired to restore only specific database(s) when doing a restore. That option is already available. Instead of restoring "all content" you can select "databases" and then pick the databases that you want to restore. As a database is not physically linked to one website project, it is technically not possible to auto-select the right database that a website project uses to auto-restore along with a website restore.
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Add some CPU/IO % limits for backups
Add some CPU/IO % limits for backups to avoid consuming all resources from the server
1 voteProcess priority and disk I/O priority can be set in the Tools & Settings > Tools & Resources > Backup Manager > Settings page.
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Change the backup structure so all files and directories regarding one backup are located in one archive
It'd be easier for to have a directory created for each backup instead of having all the files in, for example, /var/lib/psa/dumps/.
For example, I'd like to have a structure like this:
backup_2011300010.tgz that contains all the files and directories for this backup.1 voteRemote backups are already single-file archives. The same can be achieved by a workaround locally. In "Tools & Settings" > "Backup Manager" > "Backup Settings" check the box "Allow setting up FTP backup storage on the local server". Then configure any local FTP storage space of your choice, e.g. create a subscription just for the purpose of storing backups in it or use an existing subscription and create directory for the backups in it. Now configure your backups as "remote" backups but store them to the FTP address. This will create files that have all backup components in one single file, yet they are not stored on a different machine, but locally, and accessible much faster than if stored remotely.
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cloud storage for scheduled domain backups
You can store full server backups, manual and scheduled, and manual domain backups directly to cloud services but not scheduled domain backups. It's an obvious gap in functionality that could very easily be added and would make domain backups much more useful.
1 voteThis functionality exists in paid versions of cloud backup extensions. For example, for Amazon S3 or Microsoft OneDrive Backup extensions:
“Ability to store scheduled subscription’s backups in a remote cloud storage.”
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Adding functionality to restore a non-existing domain or subscription from a server-wide Plesk backup
I suggest adding functionality to restore a domain or subscription from a server-wide backup on the Plesk server, where this domain or subscription is missing (for example, it was deleted before). This is very inconvenient when you have to create a nonexistent subscription, then restore it, and then separately restore the domain in it.
2 votesIt is not only possible to restore non-existent customers, subscriptions and websites, but also more granular objects such as mail acounts, databases etc. (please see the attached screenshot). When restoring a subscription, it is not necessary that the subscription already exists. If the whole customer account does not exist, you can also restore the full account from a backup. There is no need to create that account before a restore is done.
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Activation of backup for mailman and mail boxes separately
Currently you can only activate email backup in general.
The differentiation between mail boxes and mailman is not possible.
In my use case I only need a backup of the imap boxes and mailman increases the size of my backup very much1 voteYou can use “Exclude specific files from the backup” option with specified path to mailman directory. Something like /path_to_mailman/*
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Add ability to check backup duration and when the task has been completed
Backup task may increase server load. In order to balance it, it is required understand how long task has been running.
Currently it is possible to check only from log files, which is not very convenient. Please, add ability to simply check this info in Plesk UI.2 votesWith the very comfortable and easy-to-use Plesk Backup Telemetry extension that is available for free you can dive into the backup process tree and see exactly where the hold-ups are.
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Please availlable export backup button in mssql databases like phpMyAdmin.
Please availlable export backup button in mssql databases like phpMyAdmin.
1 voteVerified in test environment that this feature already exists. You can import and export dumps through the "Databases" page in Plesk Windows just as you can in Linux. This includes MSSQL databases.
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Ability to see all existing scheduled backup in one place
Ability to see all existing scheduled backup in one place.
Backups are already done and it is required to see them in one place to be sure that they are created without issues.
1 votePlease use this extension for your purpose https://ext.plesk.com/packages/17ffcf2a-8e8f-4cb2-9265-1543ff530984-scheduled-backups-list
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Restrict user from deleting backups created by administrator
Restrict user from deleting backups created by the administrator, while allowing to create a delete and own backups.
5 votesBackup sets that were created by the administrator of a host cannot be modified or deleted by another user.
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add bzip2/xz compression support for backups
Would be nice to have the option to choose other compression formats for backups, especially bzip2 or xz. To reduce compression time, parallel implementations can be used (pbzip2 and pxz). Additionally there should be an option to set compression level (1-9).
7 votesStarting from Plesk Obsidian 18.0.40, GZIP compression used in the Plesk backups has been replaced with ZSTD compression to improve performance for backup and restore operations. This allows more control over compression level, too.
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Add the possibility to exclude certain files of certain domain from server-wide backup
There is an option to exclude certain files of all domains from a server-wide backup, but no option to exclude certain files of some domains from a server-wide backup.
1 voteFor all or selected subscriptions you can use option -exclude-domain-file
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Backup to onedrive
Hello, I have bought Office 365 and I have 1 TB of onedrive space. I would like to use it backup but in plesk panel is only possible by dropbox.
2 votesJust use corresponding extension – https://ext.plesk.com/packages/a8e5ad9c-a254-4bcf-8ae4-5440f13a88ad-one-drive-backup
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Allow weekly and monthly backups with Dropbox Backup Extension
Can you please make an option in the Dropbox scheduled backup for weekly and monthly...?
We want to turn off daily but keep weekly or monthly.
This is also useful for bandwidth when you are being charged everyday to output xxGB out of the sever to Dropbox. (weekly may be ok since this Dropbox is not the primary backup solution but a secondary one for us and we don't need it to upload the xxGB backup daily...)
Thank you
11 votesVerified that with the Drop Box extension it is possible to create the same daily, weekly or monthly backups that are also available with other backup methods. Should this request have meant to disable daily backups (hide that option), please formulate that as a new feature request, because that would be a different story.
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Comments for FTP backups
May it could be great for a next release of Plesk, that comments could be display in the backups list from the start! Correctly comments for backups on the remote FTP server can not be viewed.
3 votesVerified that in Plesk Obsidian the Backup Manager lists all show the comments that were stored in the backup set.
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backup keeps failing disk space
I have a 100gb ssd drive server. I have 64% of it used. I am no longer able to perform backups as it creates an error on starting the backup. There must be a way to do the backup site by site and then have the backup deleted after a successful transfer. I have setup the backup to a remote ftp server.
1 voteJohn, you might want to contact our support at https://support.plesk.com/hc/en-us or our community at https://talk.plesk.com/ for help with your problem
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Integrate fullbackup.php into Plesk UI
I am posting this here because the dedicated KB page for the script fullbackup.php (https://support.plesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/213949545-Plesk-Server-Backup-Script) refers to a forum page that no longer exists (https://talk.plesk.com/threads/plesk-server-backup-script.247563/)
Plesk server-wide backups run into space & memory problems, so you developed the fullbackup.php utility.
Fullbackup.php just works, but being an "external" tool, its configuration (--per-domain etc), execution and output (the generated backup) are not recognized by Plesk UI.
You can have a 10-GB successful server-wide backup in the /dumps directory, generated by fullbackup.php: Plesk will ignore it and tell you that there are no backups.
I suggest that fullbackup.php is…
1 voteThis fullbackup.php script was developed many years ago for old Plesk versions where this script was really actual.
Since then, the backup manager has been very seriously redesigned and the best solutions from this old script have been included.
You can use pleskbackup utility with server option as alternative of this old script https://docs.plesk.com/en-US/onyx/cli-linux/using-command-line-utilities/pleskbackup-backing-up-content-and-configuration.74260/
Thank you for your suggestion, but the functionality of this old script will not be integrated into Plesk Ui.
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we should have to be the feature to take database backup with our programming code
we should have to be the feature to take database backup with our programming code
in c# asp.net,MVC1 voteYou can write own Plesk extension for your purpose with help of this guide – https://docs.plesk.com/en-US/onyx/extensions-guide/plesk-extensions-in-a-nutshell.76331/
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Ability to exclude web access logs file from backup
The incremental backup of plesk works great except for only one thing: log file.
I find that on high traffic site, the backup will always backup ALL log file even if this is an incremental backup. This create a very large backup file even the site hasn't been changed at all.
The ability to exclude log from backup will help incremental backup run much faster and save more space.
1 votePlease refer to https://docs.plesk.com/en-US/onyx/administrator-guide/backing-up-and-restoration/backing-up-the-entire-server.59257/ to know how to exclude log files from backup.
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