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You can back up the entire Plesk server: the control panel configuration and server settings along with client accounts and domains.
To perform a full backup follow these steps:
Run Plesk Backup.
Select the Back up control panel configuration and server settings checkbox and click the Select All shortcut to select all client accounts and domains.
You can save your current backup configuration for further use. To do this, in the File menu, select the Save configuration item.
To load a previously saved backup configuration, use the Load configuration item in the File menu.
Specify the backup file name and path or click the Browse button to locate an existing backup file to be overwritten.
Type a description in the Description field, if desired.
Click Start.
It is recommended that you use the Suspend domain operations during backing up option, because if some changes are made through the Plesk control panel during the process of backing up, the resulting backup file may be generated incorrectly or the process itself may fail.
You are strongly advised to temporarily stop the control panel web-server engine, so as to prevent the users from changing data through the control panel in the process of executing a backup. To do this, select the Suspend control panel services during backing up checkbox, or operate the control panel services via the Service Control Utility that can be invoked from the operating system taskbar. Please keep in mind that the Backup and restore utilities require that the Plesk Management Service, Plesk Miscellaneous Service, and Plesk SQL Server be running.
The backup file size is limited to 4 GB. All backup files over 4GB are split into several volumes, named in accordance with the following scheme: FileName -> FileName.1->FileName.2, etc.
If Plesk is configured for working with a remote MS SQL server, the MS SQL databases are not backed up.