Backing Up and Restoring Databases

You can back up a database in the following ways:

• Export a database dump in the SQL format. This enables you to create
  and download the database in a single file. An individual file can be
  restored into the same or another database. See the Exporting and
  Importing Database Dumps section for details.
• Back up an entire subscription. This enables you to create a backup
  file in a selected storage (on the Plesk server or on a remote FTP
  server). When restoring the backup, you can select a database to
  restore. See the Backing Up and Recovering Websites
  section for details.

You can restore a database either from a subscription backup archive or
from an SQL dump file in the following ways:

• Import a database dump. This enables you to restore data from a file
  in the SQL format. Individual dumps can be restored into any database
  of the same type as the type of a dump (for example, MySQL). See the
  Exporting and Importing Database Dumps section for
  details.
• Restore a database from a backup of an entire subscription. When
  restoring the backup, you can select an individual database to
  restore. See the Backing Up and Recovering Websites
  section for details.