Andy's Contributions to the Intertubes http://andymdn.com Just another WordPress site Wed, 13 Oct 2010 06:41:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 PleskDump – a Plesk backup extraction utility http://andymdn.com/2010/10/11/pleskdump-a-plesk-backup-extraction-utility/ http://andymdn.com/2010/10/11/pleskdump-a-plesk-backup-extraction-utility/#comments Mon, 11 Oct 2010 19:30:20 +0000 Andy http://andymdn.com/?p=36 Continue reading →]]> At work, our server guy (let’s call him Steve) has to sometimes extract Plesk backups to retrieve old files for clients. I can’t help but notice that Steve gets sad whenever he has to do that – it turns out, it’s kind of a bitch.

Sure, he could upload the backup from our Samba share to one of the RedHat servers, do some greping, tailing, heading and piping to a file (*cough*) – but is it worth his time? Some of these backups are 3GB+ and it takes a few hours just to upload one.

I was surprised there’s no easy way of doing this on Windows, short of using cygwin. I whipped up a tool in C# to do exactly that. On Windows. With a GUI. For Steve.

Grab it from the Downloads page!

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