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How to remove Plesk backup files and their logs
Removing backups existing in Plesk
Via Plesk
In Plesk, go to Tools & Settings > Backup manager (server-wide backups) or Websites & Domains > Backup Manager (domain backups).
Choose a backup that should be deleted and click Remove. Backup files will be also removed from the system.
Via a command-line interface
For Plesk on Linux
Connect to a Plesk server via SSH.
Find the backup_infoXXXX.xml file using a backup creation date:
# /usr/local/psa/admin/bin/pmm-ras –get-dump-list | grep .xml:
In this example, the domain level backup was created on 10.08.2019 (19.08.10):
# /usr/local/psa/admin/bin/pmm-ras –get-dump-list | grep .xml:
<message>domains/example.com/backup_info_1908101555.xml: </message>Delete the backup by specifying the corresponding *.xml file. For example:
# /usr/local/psa/admin/bin/pmm-ras –verbose –debug –delete-dump –dump-specification=backup_info_1908101555.xml –session-path=/var/log/plesk/PMM
For Plesk Obsidian on Windows Server
Connect to a Plesk server via RDP.
Find the backup_infoXXXX.xml file using a backup creation date:
C:\> “%plesk_bin64%”\pmm-ras.exe –get-dump-list | findstr .xml:
In this example, the domain level backup was created on 22 July 2020:
C:\> “%plesk_bin64%”\pmm-ras.exe –get-dump-list | findstr .xml:
<message>backup_info_2007220826.xml: </message>If Plesk was installed into a custom location, replace C:\Program Files (x86) in the command above with the custom location
Remove the backup by specifying the corresponding *.xml file. For example:
C:\> “%plesk_bin64%”\pmm-ras.exe –verbose –debug –delete-dump –dump-specification=backup_info_2007220826.xml
For Plesk Onyx or earlier on Windows Server
Connect to a Plesk server via RDP.
Find the backup_infoXXXX.xml file using a backup creation date:
C:\>”%plesk_bin%/pmm-ras” –get-dump-list | findstr .xml:
In this example, the domain level backup was created on 10.08.2019 (19.08.10):
C:\>”%plesk_bin%/pmm-ras” –get-dump-list | findstr .xml:
<message>domains/example.com/backup_info_1908101555.xml: </message>Remove the backup by specifying the corresponding *.xml file. For example:
C:\> “%plesk_bin%\pmm-ras.exe” –verbose –debug –delete-dump –dump-specification=backup_info_1908101555.xml –session-path=”%plesk_dir%PMM”
Removing old backup logfiles (Linux)
Connect to a Plesk server via SSH.
Delete directories with old backup files created before a desired date from
/var/log/plesk/PMM/:# find /var/log/plesk/PMM/ -name ‘backup*’ -type d -ctime +XX -exec rm -rf {} +;
where XX is a number of days before the current date.
Removing backups that are not shown in Plesk, but exist physically on a server (Linux)
Connect to a Plesk server via SSH.
Delete backup directories and files created before a desired date from
/var/log/plesk/PMM/and/var/lib/psa/dumps:Remove backup logfiles:
# find /var/log/plesk/PMM/ -name ‘backup*’ -type d -ctime +XX -exec rm -rf {} +;
Remove backup files:
# find /var/lib/psa/dumps -name ‘backup*’ -ctime +XX -exec rm -rf {} +;
where XX is a number of days before the current date.
