Activating Acronis Cyber Protect Backup With Your Plesk Server

Here are the system requirements and limitations of Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud Backup:

• Plesk for Linux 17.0 and later.
• The list of supported operating systems for the backup agent (Agent for Linux) is available at
  https://www.acronis.com/en-us/support/documentation/BackupService/index.html#33496.html
• The list of supported virtualization platforms is available at
  https://www.acronis.com/en-us/support/documentation/BackupService/index.html#37870.html
  The agentless backup of VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V is not supported.
• For backing up Plesk running on a Virtuozzo container, both Agent for Linux and Agent for
  Virtuozzo are required.
• Backup of individual websites is not supported. Back up the entire server instead.
• Granular recovery of databases is supported only for MySQL running on the same machine as
  Plesk.
• Granular recovery of PostgreSQL databases is not supported.

Installation and Activation of Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud For Plesk Server

1. Upon successful completion of your Acronis Cyber Protect Backup subscription, you will receive a welcome email sent via Acronis to you that require you to activate the services. Click on the link and it will bring you to Acronis portal for the steps to activate the service.
   
   
2. Set a password and do note down your own unique account ID (sample as below). Your password will be use for the access to the Acronis portal and for the installation of the Acronis Plesk extension.
   
   
3. Accept both the terms and agreements.
4. Login to your Plesk server > Extensions. From the extension catalog, search for Acronis Backup
   
   
5. Upon completion of the extension installation. Launch the extension and you will receive this screen. Click on the "I have an Acronis account" link.
   
   
6. Sign in with your registered email (the email you receive the Acronis portal activation above) and password (that you have used for activation above).
   
   
7. Upon successful logon, you will be prompted for the activation of the Encryption for the backup. Remain the Encryption disable as activating the encryption will fail the backup from Plesk extension. Click on the "Enable" button to begin the agent installation.
   
   
8. The backup agent installation begin and you will see the progress as it goes on. The installation will take a couple of minutes to complete.
   
   
9. Upon the completion of the agent installation and activation is successful.
   
   
10. Click Done and you will be redirected to the dashboard. To begin your first backup. Click on the "Run Now".
    
    
11. The backup will be started and upon completion, you will see the "Last Backup" will be updated.
    
    
12. Click on the Backups tab and you will be able to see your last backup. Click on the date and you will be able to navigate to the files which are backup to Acronis Cloud.
    
    

A much more detail management of the Acronis plugin for Plesk can be found https://dl.acronis.com/u/pdf/Acronis_Backup_extension_for_Plesk_en-US.pdf. This include if you wish to enable the encryption backup and enabling the 2FA for your account for better security.

Some of the links in the PDF article may be redirecting you to the retail shop for packages that you will be paying a higher price vs the backup package we are offering. The upgrade on their store will not work for you as that will be creating a separate Acronis cloud portal account that will result you to be double paying.