Restoring a deleted domain subscription

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Hi guys,

I want to remove a domain from our Plesk server, but I've decided to back it up using Plesk's backup manager.

I now have a backup of the domain on both the server repository and as a local copy (tar file).
However, I'm not sure how I can restore this once the subscription is removed from the customer.

The documentation only describes restoring while the domain is still there on the server.
I am using Plesk 11.

Any ideas how I can do this?

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Ok, I seem to have found the answer here:
http://download1.parallels.com/Plesk/PP ... =62506.htm

In my case, I'm trying to restore a single domain for a client.
Apart from the option

-level domains

The rest is up to the backup file's path and name, isn't it?

The backup is located under the default Plesk backup repository
/var/lib/psa/dumps/domains/
which then has
mydomain.com/prefix_mydomain.com_info_1210161556.xml

I don't think I need to bother with filter option as that's the only domain in the backup file anyway.
So my command would be

/usr/local/psa/bin/pleskrestore --restore /var/lib/psa/dumps/domains/mydomain.com/prefix_mydomain.com_info_1210161556.xml -level domains

That should be it, I suppose... Just a little worried in case things go wrong and it ruins other domains in the server belonging to other clients.

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I've retried this:

Used the command line to make the backup, in case the backup utility doesn't do the same operation.

/usr/local/psa/bin/pleskbackup domains-name mydomain.com

And as previously, I used the restore command

/usr/local/psa/bin/pleskrestore --restore /var/lib/psa/dumps/clients/me/domains/mydomain.com/backup_mydomain.com_info_1210171452 -level domains

However, the domain was restored, but the article I posted on the website (using Wordpress) wasn't there anymore or the email that I had set up.
I need to find out a way I back up and restore the full domain subscription before I take out a used one.

The backup command seems to have the option to backup --only-mail or -c for only backing up configuration, but I want to back up the contents as well as configuration, which I'm guessing the command does when entered without these options.

Any help here would be greatly appreciated.