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1. Prerequisites
Active Wasabi Cloud Storage Account
Wasabi Bucket - See our Bucket Creation Guide
Access & Secret Key Pair - See our Access Keys Guide
Active Plesk Account
Plesk Obsidian v. 18.0.52
2. Configuration of Remote Storage
2.1 With your Plesk Server installed and running, click Extension. In the search box, type Amazon S3 Backup and click the extension.
2.2 Click Download for Free and Install the Extension.
2.3 Click Tools & Settings, then click Backup Manager.
2.4 In Backup Manager click Remote Storage Settings.
2.5 Click Amazon S3 Backup.
2.6 Click Service Provider Dropdown and change the Service Provider to Custom (Minio, Openstack,etc.)
2.7 Fill out the following information.
Service Provider—Custom
API Endpoint URL—Wasabi Service URL where your bucket is located
Login (Key)—Wasabi Access Key
Password (Secret)—Wasabi Secret Key
Bucket—Name of Wasabi bucket where you want your backups to go
Path—Specified path inside of bucket
Note: This configuration example uses Wasabi's us-east-1 storage region. To use other Wasabi storage regions, please use the appropriate Wasabi service URL as described in our Wasabi Service URLs.
2.8 Click Apply, and if successful, you will receive a green check mark next to the information up top.
3. Backup Creation
3.1 Choose Backup Manager and click Settings.
3.2 Here, you can specify your required backup settings for your backup jobs.
Maximum number of full backups - How many full backups to keep
Compression Level - No Compression, Fastest, Fast, Normal, or Maximum
Amount of Free Disk Space
Password Type - Encryption settings for backups
Click Apply and then OK.
3.3 Next inside of Backup Manager click Back Up.
3.4 On the Back Up the Server configuration page you can specify what you want to backup and where the backup needs to be stored. Make sure to select Custom to specify the backup to go to your specified Wasabi Bucket.
3.5 Click OK, and the job will run.
3.6 Upon successful completion of the backup job, it will return with a green check mark and tell you the size of the backup.
3.7 You can validate the backup by logging into your Wasabi Console and looking inside the bucket.
4. Restore
4.1 In Backup Manager click on the completed Creation date of the specified job that you wish to restore from.
4.2 From here you can select what you want to restore either being certain objects or all objects. Once you have made your selections click Restore.
4.3 You will see the job complete successfully when finished restoring in your Backup Manager.
