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How to extract web files, databases etc from Plesk backup manually?

If you have not so big dump file, for example 100-200MB, you can unzip it and open in any local Email client. Paths of the dump will be shown as attachments. Choose and save needed one then unzip it.

Other Way - It can be done using mpack tools to work with MIME files. This packet is included into Debian:

For other Linux systems you can try to use RPM from ALT Linux:

ftp://ftp.pbone.net/mirror/ftp.altlinux.ru/pub/distributions/ALTLinux/Sisyphus/files/i586/RPMS/mpack-1.6-alt1.i586.rpm

or compile mpack from the sources: http://ftp.andrew.cmu.edu/pub/mpack/.
- Create an empty directory to extract the back up file:

and copy backup into it.By default Plesk backup is gzipped (if not, use cat), so run zcat to pass data to munpack to extract content of directories from the backup file:

In result you get the set of tar and sql files that contain domains’ directories and databases. Untar the needed directory. For example if you need to restore the httpdocs folder for the DOMAIN.TLD domain:

Reference: http://parallels.com/

How to remove a website manually in Ensim Pro Control Panel

Sometimes, the site is not fully removed from the server so it should be deleted manually. Here are all steps that should be done, but please note that after deleting the site can not be restored back.

Everything should be done from under root user.

Check which siteX the site corresponds to:

and what adminX is responsible for it:

Let’s say siteX is site handler for the necessary domain, and adminX is the owner.

Remove user content physically from the server:

And remove the records from the system database:

Finally, you need to go through all the files in /etc/virtualhosting/mappings and check if any of them refer to the site you’re deleting. You can use grep to quickly see if/which files might refer to the site to be deleted:

And finally - restart ensim CP:

Reference and Credit : http://parallels.com/

Update awstats in Plesk Manually

To update stats manually for a domain, you can run the following command. Replace the “domain.com” with the domain name.

To generate stats for all the domains in the server, use the following command.

If you receive any error, please make sure that the binaries are present in the path specified in the configuration file ‘/etc/psa/psa.conf’

will return the path

Make sure that the following files are present in the correct location.

Update awstats in Plesk Manually

To update stats manually for a domain, you can run the following command. Replace the “domain.com” with the domain name.

To generate stats for all the domains in the server, use the following command.

If you receive any error, please make sure that the binaries are present in the path specified in the configuration file ‘/etc/psa/psa.conf’

will return the path

Make sure that the following files are present in the correct location.

Updating DirectAdmin Manually

If you need to update your copy of DirectAdmin manually, you can do so by running the following commands:

Where 123 and 1234 are your Client ID and License ID, respectively. Note that if you are running FreeBSD, you might need to add a \ before the ? character in the wget line. If there are errrors extracting the update.tar.gz file, then run:

to search for an error.