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OS: Linux CP: Plesk 9.x Where does Plesk 9.x store backups generated from the scheduled backups initiated via the control panel. /var/lib/psa/dump stores a lot of backups including the psa mysql database backup (incase you, or Plesk, corrupt the psa database).  Client backups can be found in: /var/lib/psa/dump/clients The backups of the vhosts/www data appears [...]

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Looking to move back to qmail from postfix due to all the issues introduced by Plesk when using Postfix.  Unfortunately Parallels have produced an extremely flaky implementation of the Postfix MTA in their Plesk 9.x control panel software and have not been able to fix the bugs in months. The following article describes the process [...]

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OS: CentOS 5.4 CP: Plesk 9.3 MTA: Postfix Plesk appears to have a bug in it where if you disable a domain mail function Plesk leaves various entries in the postfix mailertables.  For example, domain test.com has mail disabled on it, but, Plesk leaves entries in the following mail tables used by postfix: /var/spool/postfix/plesk/alias.db: _plesk_bounce_test.com [...]

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OS: CentOS 5.4 CP: Plesk 9.3 MTA: Postfix Mail was bouncing when being sent to a mailbox.  The error message was not very helpful at all: Mar 24 15:28:02 hostname postfix/pipe[14810]: 4E28B167911E: to=<user@domain.org>, relay=plesk_virtual, delay=2.7, delays=2.7/0/0/0.01, dsn=5.7.1, status=bounced (Message can’t be delivered ) Creating a new mailbox on the domain allowed emails to be sent [...]

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Had a problem with webstats on some sites after migrating the sites from a Linux Plesk 8.x server to a Linux Plesk 9.x server. First problem was it appears that a plesk-stat directory was in the httpdocs directory and empty, which, caused a problem for some reason.  Deleted this and re-ran the stats program which [...]

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