Pleask support incremental backup for mail content too

Awesome! Can't wait for it to make it to a release version! Thanks a lot for the effort!!! Will save me a lot of headaches, and disk space! :)

Is available in 12.1 for 6 months already:

http://download1.parallels.com/Plesk/PP12/parallels-plesk-12.1-for-linux-change-log.html

12.1.11 [24-November-2014]

[+] Users can perform operations on incremental backups kept at an FTP storage.

Automatic backup when any filed changed or scheduled back up would be great.

Hi Randall,

You can set frequency of full backup in in Scheduled Backup > Settings

Playing with the online demo of 12.1, super excited for the Incremental backup feature. but I noticed that there didn't appear to be any way to specify how often a full backup is made... ie: Full Backup monthly... Incremental daily... etc...

Something on this subject has been already given to the community, August 2013:
http://forum.sp.parallels.com/threads/inctroducing-incremental-backup-script-take-a-look.290397/

@cagle8 - stop spamming & posting links with your referrer id in the url!

If you want a best and simple cloud backup, I suggest you should go for CloudBacko IT solution. CloudBacko is simpler in the sense you don’t need to install it rather you can only login through your favourite social media account. It supports majorly Windows, Mac, Linux ,etc. Check here http://free.cloudbacko.com/?r=1d

We develop own mechanism of incremental backup because of various reasons.

here are some stats for zpaq:
-the initial backup took 26mins & 5gb of data get compressed into a 2gb file.. while doing the backup, the server was using about 20% but spiking up to 100% of the cpu (my virtual server only has 1 x vcpu & only 4gb of ram). while doing the backup the server was still usable :)
-before the second backup I added a new 70mb file to one of the websites
-the second differential backup took 1 minute & the backup file size was only 60mb

Here is the command I used so that you can do some tests with zpaq:

"d:\utilities\zpaq\zpaq64.exe" add "d:\backups\automated\daily\backup-v656-????.zpaq" "d:\websites\*" -not "d:\websites\.skel" "d:\websites\default" "d:\websites\fs" "d:\websites\servers" "d:\websites\sitebuilder" "d:\websites\sqladmin" "d:\websites\statistics" "d:\websites\webmail"

With version 6.65 of zpaq it creates a small index file (mine was only 5mb) so that you can move all large files off your server to save space & just use the index file to work out what you need for diff backups - see: http://encode.ru/threads/456-zpaq-updates?p=41353&viewfull=1#post41353

FYI: zpac is also still supported by it's original author - http://encode.ru/threads/456-zpaq-updates/page52

what are you planning on using for incremental backups?

My suggestion would be using one of the following utilities as we have had great success with them & they are both cross platform:
http://mattmahoney.net/dc/zpaq.html
http://www.exdupe.com/

It should work like an apple time machine, this is how ALL back ups should be done.

This will be excellent. It will make off-site backup more affordable.

Great, thanks for listening to the users of Plesk. The major challenges for the future of companies go through listening to users.

"Planned → Started"
Great, thanks!

I'd like to see a file / directory exclusion option integrated with the incremental backup option. This would be used for excluding cache directories and session files that have a lot of constantly changing files that don't need to be kept.

Yes yes yes yes what a waste of space the old way! i was away on vacation and came back to my server having 200+gigs of backup files alone after one week!

Thanks for planning to include this feature