: Trouble with pleskrestore "The file you are trying to upload is not a valid backup file" I am having trouble with pleskrestore on Plesk 10.4.1, CentOS 5. I have 6 files I created (also in

@Ann8826881

To upack / Untar:

cat "backupfilename" "backupfilename"1 "backupfilename"2 "backupfilename"3 | tar xzpv


All I had to do after that for a full server restore was:

/usr/local/psa/bin/pleskrestore --restore "backupfilename".xml -level server

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@Goswami781

So tried to do all this with the documentation, but it is lacking in detail and accuracy. Plus, all the error messages their applications return are worthless.

Oh, and I have to say that this is the last time I embark on a project with Plesk.

Instead, my support folks had to unpack (untar?) the files so I could access this XML file.

backup_info_1112070810.xml


This information is not included ANYWHERE in the Plesk documentation FYI.

But I still got errors

# /usr/local/psa/bin/pleskrestore --restore backup_info_1112070810.xml -level server -license -map map_file

Backup file has wrong format
Dump has critical errors.


Then I had to create a map file (even though Plesk’s documentation implies it is only required for Plesk 8.6 and 9 (Linux): kb.parallels.com/6164
# /usr/local/psa/bin/pleskrestore --create-map backup_info_1112070810.xml -map map_file


But I still got errors. Starting to see a trend.

Upon validating the file I realized it had errors so I had to manually add 2 other IP addresses to Plesk

# /usr/local/psa/bin/pleskrestore --validate-map map_file


Did it like this:

123.123.123.xx/255.255.255.0
123.123.123.xx/255.255.255.0


Then the map file validated:

# /usr/local/psa/bin/pleskrestore --validate-map map_file


But still got the same error message when I tried to restore

# /usr/local/psa/bin/pleskrestore --restore backup_info_1112070810.xml -level server -license -map map_file

Backup file has wrong format
Dump has critical errors.


Finding this post: forum.parallels.com/showthread.php?t=109694 I decided to attempt to upgrade Plesk from 10.2 to 10.3.1, then to 10.4.4 ( I originally had 10.4.1).

After that was complete I ran this and everything restored. It took at least 10 hours for 150 domains and 24GBs

# /usr/local/psa/bin/pleskrestore --restore backup_info_1112070810.xml -level server -license -map map_file


Finally, after all the clients and domains and data showed up I realized that I still had the following problems, thanks again to Plesk:


Unlike the previous install of Plesk, which had PHP 5.3, this restore defaulted to 5.1, which caused many a site to break. Fixed by installing PHP53 (using official Plesk source) and the autoinstaller

$ /usr/local/psa/admin/sbin/autoinstaller
I had made fixes to my previous php.ini file. Plesk did not restore. Namely the problem with timezone support. Fixed by adding the following and restarting httpd.

date.timezone = "America/New_York"
Could not access Plesk after restore, kept getting 404s. Solved by disabling SSO.
All service plans were set to defaults. Annoying.
Last but not least by a long shot (at least for now). When I restored domains I found they had been given the wrong owner. User’s files were owned by the wrong user. Terrible, Plesk, really terrible. Had to do recursive chown within httpdocs to give files the right owners.

$ chown -R user:group *

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