Hello!

First of all: I am a newbie.

I have a CentOS 64bit server with Plesk Panel 8.6.
And have been hacked.

After many tries and support tickets, I am configuring a new server, with Suse 11 and Plesk 9.2.

I know that Plesk 8.6 have a backup utility (Parallels Plesk Control Panel 8.6 for Linux/Unix Backup and Restore Utilities Administrator's Guide)

But I have some unclear doubts:
1. Is it safe use restore utility? It will restore the license too, but I want to use the newer license, not the old one.
2. How can I backup everything from my old server to the newer? Including e-mails (qmail), DB (MySQL) and domains files and configurations? Does anyone have experience with this?
3. How can I send the files/backup from one server to another in a quick way? I simply can't download-upload for 2 reasons:
3.a) It's about 200GB of files
3.b) I didn't have enought time

If anyone know anything, please help me.

I am with this trouble about 2 days and after the attack I have only SSH access to the server.
The Plesk Panel don't load.

Thank you very much for your attention,

Miguel Koscianski Vidal

Hi,

I too have faced these type of hack issues from my webhosting servers. Which is quite natural that we cannot avoid. So, now you are in a loop.
1) Do you have an local backup or else do you have a separate server for the backups?
2) What is the format of the backup files?
3) You can use the Netcat command to transfer the files from one server to another. Here below the link

A Unix Utility You Should Know About: Netcat - good coders code, great reuse

Or else you can use the rsync command to transfer the files from one server to another in a quite time rather than upload and download.
4) I hope that every thing is been clear on the documentation, on how to restore from the backup.

Thank you very much for your reply, gsiva.
No. I didn't have any backup.
If I create one now with Plesk Backup Utility, it has a particular format.
What do you recommend to me: Netcat or rsync?
Which is the fastest? Which is the most secure?

Do you know how to manually backup everything of my server?
In a way that I can only copy the files to the new server and it will run like are running now.

Thank you very much,

Miguel Koscianski Vidal

Hi,

You can make use of the rsync command to transfer the files. which I recommand. The speed of the transfer depends of your network issues.

You can make use of the rsnap backup tool which is more user friendly to backup the files internally. The below link will help you ..

How To Backup Local Unix Host Using rsnapshot rsync Utility

let me know if you are in need of any further clarifications.

Regards
Siva