Defining How the Backup Process Is Performed

You can specify the following options for the backup operation:

  1. Do not perform the backup if your server does not have specified free disk space.
  2. Do not perform the backup if your server does not have enough free disk space to store the backup content.
  3. Temporarily suspend websites during backup.
  4. Configure the backup utility to include more details in backup reports.
Specifying disk space requirements for the backup

You can prevent the start of the backup operation if your server has not enough disk space to complete it. To set the free disk space requirements, change the parameters in the file $PRODUCT_ROOT_D/admin/share/pmmcli/pmmcli-rc.

There are two ways to prevent the start of the backup operation:

FREE_DISK_SPACE 100
CHECK_BACKUP_DISK_SPACE 0
Suspending websites

If your backup will include websites, we recommend that you suspend them during the backup process by using the --suspend option of the backup utility. This will help you avoid possible errors that may be caused by changes made to the site configuration or content during the backup.

The suspension is made as short as possible: each site is suspended only for the time it is being backed up: The site is started automatically as soon as its data are processed.

Defining level of backup verbosity

There are three levels of backup verbosity:

The verbose mode of the backup process is defined by the -v option:

Option

Verbosity

Example

no, -v, -vv

Low

To create a complete server backup with a low level of verbosity on Linux/Unix:

# opt/psa/bin/pleskbackup server -vv

-vvv

Medium

To create a complete server backup with a medium level of verbosity on Linux/Unix:

# opt/psa/bin/pleskbackup server -vv

-vvvv, -vvvvv

High

To create a complete server backup with a high level of verbosity on Linux/Unix:

# opt/psa/bin/pleskbackup server -vv

To run a task on creating a complete server backup with a maximum level of verbosity:

pleskbackup server -vvvvv