Backup Objects: Hierarchy and Volume¶
Plesk provides opportunities for backing up and restoring nearly all hosting data, which includes its major objects: administrator account, settings for Plesk-managed services, reseller accounts, customer accounts, subscriptions, websites, databases and mail accounts. These backup objects are organized into a hierarchy where parent object is always an owner of its children. The hierarchy comprises of four levels: server, resellers, customers and subscriptions. The levels are such that a higher level includes objects on the lower levels but a lower level is completely separated from the higher objects.
You can create either a full or a partial backup. A full backup is the highest-level backup, it includes all data related to a Plesk installation. A partial backup includes only backup objects you need, of any of the levels. For information on available options when creating a partial backup, refer to the section Defining Data for Backup.
Restoring a backup, in turn, can also be either full or partial. Full restoration recovers all data contained in a backup, and partial recovers a part. For information on available options when restoring data from backup, refer to the Defining Objects for Restoration section.
Each backup object includes the following:
- Configuration defines properties of the backup object and its descendants.
- Content contains binary data related only to the backup object (website content and content of mailboxes).
This table shows what data (configuration and content) are related to each backup object.
| Backup Object Type | Configuration | Content | Not included into backup |
|---|---|---|---|
| server | This backup level includes the following:
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License keys for Plesk, virtual host templates, website content, error documents, log files, and content of mailboxes. | This backup level does not include the following:
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| reseller | This backup level includes the following:
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Website content, error documents, log files, content of mailboxes. | This backup level does not include the following:
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| customer | This backup level includes the following:
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Website content, error documents, log files, content of mailboxes. | This backup level does not include the following:
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| subscription | This backup level includes the following:
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Website content, error documents, log files, content of mailboxes. | This backup level does not include the following:
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