How to determine how much space a backup for an account takes up

Introduction

This article will help you determine how much space a backup for a customer account takes up.

Procedure

First, you will want to determine where the backups are located. You can determine where your backups are located by pasting the following within ssh:

grep -i backupdir /var/cpanel/backups/config

You should see an output similar to the following:

grep -i backupdir /var/cpanel/backups/config
BACKUPDIR: /backup

You can search the contents in the backup directory. For example, if your backups are stored in /backups/2020-06-19, you can type the following to see how much space the backups are using:

ls -lh /backup/2020-06-19/accounts