Intro

This is a simple script. It has been designed to use cron jobs to schedule backups of your plesk server backups to Amazon S3. It will also allow for multiple retention policy eg. 14 daily's and 12 monthly's.

WARNING This only works for Plesks's full backups, it will not work for incremental backups. I have tested with Plesk 12 and 12.5 on CentOS 6 and have been able to successfully restore backups. You should also test that you can restore your backups ( you should do this anyway )

When your crontab runs it will copy the latest backup it can find on your plesk server and upload it to an S3 bucket of your choosing. This script does not schedule the actual backups of Plesk but merely copies the backups that the built in Plesk backup manager runs and puts them on S3

Install

Requirements

s3cmd
python setuptools
wget

CENTOS / RHEL

Please run the following commands as the root user

yum install python-setuptools wget
wget https://github.com/s3tools/s3cmd/archive/master.zip
unzip master.zip
cd s3cmd-master/
python setup.py install
cd ..
rm -rf master.zip s3cmd-master/
wget https://github.com/stedotmartin/plesk-to-s3/archive/master.zip
unzip master.zip
cd plesk-to-s3-master
mkdir -p /opt/hypersrv.com/plesk-to-s3/
cp {plesk-to-s3,daily,monthly}.sh /opt/hypersrv.com/plesk-to-s3/
chmod 700 /opt/hypersrv.com/plesk-to-s3/{plesk-to-s3,daily,monthly}.sh
cd ..
rm -rf master.zip plesk-to-s3-master

Jobs

We use cron to schedule what times we want to copy our local plesk backups to s3

After you have installed we supply two sample jobs to copy data to s3 /opt/hypersrv.com/plesk-to-s3/daily.sh and /opt/hypersrv.com/plesk-to-s3/monthly.sh

Our daily job will copy the backup to s3 daily and keep 14 day of backups before removing the oldest backup to make way for newer ones.

As we are doing daily backups to s3 your plesk backup schedule should also be running daily, make sure that you have setup this in the backup manager inside Plesk

Our monthly job will copy the backup to s3 monthly and keep 12 months of backups before removing the oldest backup to make way for newer ones.

You will need to edit both of these jobs and enter in the required details, locate the config section, fill in the blanks or edit where you see fit.

vi /opt/hypersrv.com/plesk-to-s3/daily.sh

# Config
EMAIL="" # Email address to report to eg, "sm@hypersrv.com,email@hypersrv.com
PREFIX="backup" # Prefix of backups in plesk manager in plesk 12 you could choose a backup name but now in 12.5 the prefix will always be "backup".
KEEP=14 # The amount of backups to Keep on S3 for this job
AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID="" #  The AWS access key ID
AWS_ACCESS_KEY_SECRET="" # The AWS access key secret
BUCKETNAME="" # the AWS S3 bucket name eg. mybucket
ARCHIVENAME="daily" # the archive name for the bucket eg. "daily" to store backups in mybucket/daily
LOGFILE=/opt/hypersrv.com/plesk-to-s3/$ARCHIVENAME.log # The log file location
# /Config

Do the same for the /opt/hypersrv.com/plesk-to-s3/monthly.sh job

Add the jobs to root cron

crontab -u root -e

Add the below to the crontab file, change the times to after your Plesk backup has finished

# every day at 1am
0 1 * * * /opt/hypersrv.com/plesk-to-s3/daily.sh > /dev/null 2>&1
# first of every month at 2 am
0 2 1 * * /opt/hypersrv.com/plesk-to-s3/monthly.sh > /dev/null 2>&1

How to restore from an S3 backup

To restore the whole server:

Download the entire "dumps" folder from S3 with the correct date eg. /mybucket/backup/daily/1511241645/dumps ( for 11 November 2015 @ 16:45) Copy to your plesk server to the /var/lib/psa/dumps/ folder, choose overwrite if prompted. You should then access the plesk backup manager and see the entire backup available.

To restore one subscription:

Download the entire first level of the backup you want to restore eg. /mybucket/backup/daily/1511241645/dumps/* excluding the domains folder,

copy your downloaded items to /var/lib/psa/dumps/ but then create an empty domains folder /var/lib/psa/dumps/domains

Now download the specific subscription folder from the domains folder inside the backup with the date you want to restore from eg. /mybucket/backup/daily/1511241645/dumps/domains/test.com and copy that into /var/lib/psa/dumps/domains/

You can now use the Plesk server backup manager to restore the backup