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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Start the backup only if your server has the specified amount of free disk space (in megabytes) *
why MB?
why is the input field so small?
why only 5 digits?we need GB!!! or?
42 votesFrom the comments it became clear that the reason for this feature request was that only a limited number of digits could be entered into the input field. This however has long been resolved. Technically it should be quite easy to enter MB instead of GB, too. Changing the field to GB will actually decrease flexibility, because the granularity decreases. For that reason we are closing this feature request.
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Return backup file name features to 12.5
I know that the backup feature was rewritten in 12.5, but it is very difficult to easily identify various server and individual site backups on a remote FTP drive now that all you see displayed in the UI is the date / time. The backup features of 12.0 that included adding a prefix to the file name and also being able to actually see the file name is sorely missed.
27 votesThere are a number of reasons. The length of the paths to store backups is limited on Windows, complication of the structure due to the introduction of incremental backups, simplify backup representation in UI (after increments appeared, file names do not become human readable).
Support of prefixes makes life very difficult due to these reasons, and the rotation of backups based on prefixes in general has become a puzzle.
So we went to a small degradation, which may be solved elementary by user – putting backups in its own subdirectories. You can discussion this issue on our talk.plesk.com .
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Backup Manager: Add a "upload to ftp repository" function and button
similar to the download button.
Maybe restricted to configured ftp repository.15 votesThank you for your input!
Unfortunately, we have to close your request, because over the years it has not become quite popular for further implementation.
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Add option to Resellers can to restore data from Administrator's full backup on FTP
In Plesk reseller can restore data from a full backup created by Plesk administrator. Currently, the backup created to FTP storage can be restored only by its creator.
Add option to Resellers to restore data from the Administrator's full backup stored on FTP.
11 votesWe do understand that it seems desirable to being able to restore data from an admin-created backup. However, such a feature will bring about many high risks to availability, overload situations and data security including data privacy. When you enable customers to restore data from an admin-backup, it can very easily happen that several concurrent restore processes bring a server down as they all create intensive I/O load and high CPU load for data unzipping. Plus, on servers with a lot of data, the backup archives are very large and occupy a huge amount of temporary disk space upon unpacking. These also require many hours of restoration time, so queueing cannot be a suitable option either. And finally, when an admin backup is stored externally, this feature will also clog-up network bandwidth and there will be nothing an admin can do about it to ensure proper performance for all customers.
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Make FTP Backup more robust
Make FTP Backup more robust. I constantly get messages that either FTP Backup didn't work or that it made a full backup instead of a incremental.
Also when i open the backup list, often the FTP backups aren't shown the first time... then i need to reload the page.It seems that there is a low timeout or something else that is wrong.
The FTP goes to a 1 gig synchronous NAS in our office and i hear the disk spinning up for a few seconds (the disks go to sleep on inactivity).Maybe this spinup time breaks the backup…
10 votesThank you for your input!
Unfortunately, we have to close your request because it has not become quite popular for further implementation over the years.
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Manage folder for download dump backup
Actually, you can't manage folder destination when you download a backup from plesk interface
Add an option in plesk interface to define the folder path for :
Full backups -> /usr/local/psa/PMM/tmp
Domains backups -> /usr/local/psa/tmpHowever when you download backup files from the Plesk Control Panel, they are copied to a temporary location as a temporary file (these parameters are not manageable) and if you have small partition genrally /dev/md1 not enought than 18 Go, you can block all plesk server
10 votesThank you for your input!
Unfortunately, we have to close your request, because over the years it has not become quite popular for further implementation.
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Disaster Recovery Plesk _ Speed Up Backup Restoration procedure with possibility to open multiple process pleskrestore running
Allow the pleskrestore command to be run under different example accounts
pleskrestore --restore domains1.tar -level clients [<option_N> [<param>]]
pleskrestore --restore domains2.tar -level clients [<option_N> [<param>]]
pleskrestore --restore domains3.tar -level clients [<option_N> [<param>]]in order to obtain more simultaneous processes for the restore and therefore speeding up the recovery procedure of an entire server through plesk backups, in case of emergency.
It is very important to allow you to run multiple simultaneous processes, also because today's CPUs and disks are very powerful and performing, if in case of emergency recovery, 8 restore commands are launched, the recovery process is speeded up…
9 votesThere are two major bottlenecks for restores: Network bandwidth for downloading the archive from an external FTP server (either on the FTP server or on the local host) and cpu power on unpacking the compressed archives. Both are already maxed in the current restore algorithms. In addition, disk I/O capabilities can limit the restore speed. Specificially uncompressing creates a high cpu load and lots of disk I/O transactions. Running several such processes concurrently could stall the server and will not necessarily increase the restoration speed. Dozens of test restores on real production machines with 12-core CPUs and backup large archives (e.g. 500 - 800 GB) have shown that it is a much better and safer approach to do one such restore at a time as two of them will already overload a machine.
For these reasons we decline this request. However, rest assured that speed is always on the agenda.…
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Multiply backups local rule + ftp rule
option 2 set 2 or more backup rules.
now its very time comsumming to download a backup from a FTP location if you want to restore 1 single subscription. My idea is to make 2 rules. So I can restore the backup of the previous day from local. And if I need an older backup I can download it from a FTP location.
1) 14+ days backup retention backup to FTP backup
2) 1 day backup retention on local serverAt this point I only can setup 1, local or FTP.
9 votesThank you for your input!
Unfortunately, we have to close your request because it has not become quite popular for further implementation over the years.
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Add Duplicati 2.0
https://www.duplicati.com/download
it can blow AES backups to amazon cloud..
8 votesThis feature has not become popular over many years. For that reason we must decline it. Instead we suggest using the "Backup Cloud Pro" extension by which you can easily do secure cloud backups to various cloud services. https://www.plesk.com/extensions/offer-complete-backup-solution/
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Bacula backup system or similar
Integrate Bacula system or similar backup system, with a clean-easy panel configuration =) , mysql integration and other setups to work fine =) =) =)
6 votesThis feature request has not received a lot of votes. For that reason we suggest to ask Bacula if they would like to develop an extension for Plesk to integrate their offer with Plesk. There are many other backup or storage space vendor extensions already. Also check out the Plesk Backup to Cloud Pro package that expands the backup options to many commonly used platforms.
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Backup-Manager: Show planned backups schedule
Short info in website specific backup manager, if there are scheduled backups planned, and if so then show the schedule. Additional a overview table in server wide backup manager with all schedule backups of each website, e.g.:
domain | daily/weekly/monthly | weekday/date | time | next schedule date | option to editAt the moment you can set scheduled backups and just get a short message, that is is planned, but you can't find the info anywhere anymore. So if I don't remember, I maybe set another scheduled backup and I've no idea, if the first one is reset by…
6 votesThank you for your input!
Unfortunately, we have to close your request because it has not become quite popular for further implementation over the years.
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Backup: limit backup operation by time period
Server-wide setup to avoid users/customers to do backups on some time intervals. avoiding cpu usage on backups on premium time, leaving more resources for webserver related processes.
6 votesUnfortunately, we have to close your request, because over the years it has not become quite popular for further implementation.
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Easy select and move files where PSA saves backups and tmp folders would avoid the partitions are filled
A new section in the Plesk server setup where all temporary directories where Plesk stores temporary or backup files to change to other directories and empty the temporary appear.
FIX
http://kb.parallels.com/en/1144155 votesUnfortunately, we have to close your request, because over the years it has not become quite popular for further implementation.
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Add support for DrivinCloud to perform backups
Add support/extension for DrivinCloud (https://www.drivincloud.fr/) to perform backups.
4 votesUpd: Sorry, we are closing the request as no information was provided for over a month.
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Backup Device size in Backup Manager Window
Add Backup Location Available Disk Space indicator somewhere in the windows of Backup Manager (/admin/backup/list/)
4 votesThank you for your input!
Unfortunately, we have to close your request, because over the years it has not become quite popular for further implementation.
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Enable additional Schedule Backup with or without Full Backup
Enable additional Schedule Backup and provide an option to disable the obligation to make a Full Backup (letting user the option to create additional Incremental Backups, without messing things like repeated Full Backups). This already happends if the Admin and Client both setup Backups, it create multiple Full Backups which is not necessary since Admin Backups are create in behalf user.
4 votesAvoiding an additional full backup of a subscription when there is a full backup of the server cannot be considered reasonable for various technical and access permission reasons. It would bring about a large number of disadvantages for users, e.g. very long backup and restore times. It can also not be done for security reasons, because an administrator can and will have other security settings in place for the server backup that should not be diminished by subscription users. For the other aspects mentioned, please see the Uservoice references shown in prevous status updates. Also, regarding the very low number of votes on this feature request and that Plesk is continously improving backup functionality including more versatile options as described in previous status updates, we must decline this request.
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Fix bugs in Backup Manager
- when backups fail with the message "file changed as we read it", there should be a hint to lock domain during backup
- deleting a backup from ftp says it is successful but stays there (Management Interface and FTP)
- when deleting a backup from an incremental chain, there should be a warning that all following backups will be removed as well (since data would be inconsistent otherwise). Or maybe use a different color or section in the deletion dialog displaying all backups going to be deleted
4 votesThank you for your input!
Unfortunately, we have to close your request, because over the years it has not become quite popular for further implementation.
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Calculate Traffic for personal FTP Backup Repo
If a Customer can setup a own FTP Backup Repo, then the Traffic are currently will not calculate.
One of our Reseller creates every Night ~15GB of Traffic, so thats are 450GB of Traffic which are not Calculated to the Customer. He only pay for 125GB Traffic.
Please give us an Option to calculate ALL Traffic which a Reseller or Customer creates!
4 votesThank you for your input!
Unfortunately, we have to close your request, because over the years it has not become quite popular for further implementation.
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Bakup log rotation
Plesk does not rotate backup logs and we needs to delete them by manual.
Backup log might be very big, therefore Plesk should rotate backup logs automatically to prevent oppression of disc capacity by increasing backup logs.Related KB: http://kb.odin.com/en/113748/
4 votesThank you for your input!
Unfortunately, we have to close your request, because over the years it has not become quite popular for further implementation.
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Maximum no of backup repository restrict user level
Hi,
there is no option to restrict the no of backup repository for susbscription, customer, reseller level.
4 votesThank you for your input!
Unfortunately, we have to close your request, because over the years it has not become quite popular for further implementation.
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