Steven Barre - Skookum Code

Ever wonder how to parse a plesk backup file?

It ain’t easy. The Parallels Knoledge Base explains how to try and read it by greping and tailing and junk. Or to use an email client to open the file.

I tried to open a backup in Thunderbird once. It was not a fan of my 500MB backup file.

So I whined at my co-worker Andy about the dreadful pain of extracting single files out of large backups. Being that he can acutaly code in a real language (C#) he whipped me up a little utillity.

PleskDump – A Plesk Backup Extractor GUI for Windows!

Now when some client who canceled their site 6 months ago comes back and says “I need this one jpg I had on my site” I can get them their file with relatively little effort.

Andy is also working on a RETS client for debugging RETS Servers and getting their metadata. Hope its done soon!