Any great web site out there, especially those on a dedicated sever, need to have an equally as great backup plan. Thankfully if you are using Plesk, this is an easy process to step through.
First thing you need to do is login to your Plesk control panel, and then click on the "Back up" icon. You can then backup locally or remotely. For convenience, you can enter your FTP details and store them for future sessions. To do so, click on FTP Account Properties and then fill out all the blanks, giving Plesk your FTP information to remember. Now that you have that done lets backup our files. Click on Create Backup on the main Backup page, and then you should see a screen labeled Backup file creation.
Now click on the backup method, either local, download or remotely on an FTP server. You can also create a multivolume backup from here too. Now under FTP settings, you should see that everything has been filled out for you. Give your backup file a name, leave a comment to help your remember what it was about and also you can put in your e-mail address so you will be notified as soon as the backup is done.
When your ready, click on the "Back up" button. After doing so you may wish to play with other options you have such as enabling backups on a schedule so you don’t have to actually login and do all of this to get it done each time. You can also browse through the backup file repository too.
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