Backup Virtualhosts and MySQL data on Plesk server and store images in a remote FTP server

06 Jun 2014 Matteo Mattei backup centos plesk ftp mysql

I am working for a client that needs a system to backup a CentOS server hosted by OVH that uses Plesk. I didn’t know that Plesk already implemented a way to backup all domains and MySQL data so I cerated a script to do that:

As you can see this script keeps the last 7 days of backups. However after googling a while I found that the same thing could be done directly using a Plesk utility called pleskbackup, so I developed an alterlate script that uses it:

I hope it can help you.