226 Backing Up and Restoring Your Data
Day of the Month - enter the value from 1 to 31
Month - enter the value from 1 to 12, or select the month from a drop-down box
Day of the Week - enter the value from 0 to 6 (0 for Sunday), or select the day of
the week from a drop-down box
You can schedule the time using the UNIX crontab entry format. In this format, you
can
enter several values separated by commas. Two numbers separated by a
hyphen mean an inclusive range. For example, to run a task on the 4th, 5th, 6th,
and 20th of a month, type 4-6,20.
insert an asterisk to specify all values allowed for this field. For example, to run
a task daily, type * in the Day of the Month text box.
To schedule the task to run every Nth period, enter the combination */N, where N is
the legal value for this field (minute, hour, day, month). For example, */15 in the
Minute field schedules the task to start every 15 minutes.
You can type the contracted names of months and days of the week, which are the
first three letters: Aug, Jul, Mon, Sat, etc. However, the contracted names cannot
be separated with commas or used together with numbers.
5 Specify the command in the Command input box:
usr/local/psa/bin/pleskbackup all <filename>
Where the <filename> is a target backup file name with absolute or relative path to
its location.
6 Click OK.
The data will be backed up without disruption of hosting services and downtime.
The resulting backup archive will be placed in the directory you specified.
To schedule backup of a user account and user's sites:
1 Click the Clients shortcut in the navigation pane.
2 Click the client name you need.
3 Click the Backup icon in the Tools group.
4 Click the Schedule Backup icon in the Tools group.
5 Specify when and how often to perform backup.
6 To enable recycling of backup files, clear the Unlimited check box and
type the maximum allowed number of files in the repository.
When this limit is reached, the oldest backup files are removed.
7 Specify the combination of symbols that backup file names should
begin with.
This will help you distinguish between backup files.
8 Select the repository where you would like to store the backup file.
9 To create a multivolume backup, select the respective check box and
specify volume size in megabytes.
10 To save the user account settings, select the Back up client's preferences
and account details check box.
