File Filters on the WHM scheduled backups (for *error.log, */backup*.tar.gz )
Hello all,
We are several people here getting this kind of cPanel Alerts the nights when cPanel scheduled backups are running simultaneously compress and transport the archives on Amazon S3 :
[QUOTE][server.hostname] DISKWARN blocks : Mount Point "/" (123.456.789.10): 616.12 GB/879.11 GB - 75.16%
The filesystem "/" mounted at "/" reached "warn" status because you currently use 75.16% of its available blocks.
For my part, I get it on a weekly basis, because I've chosen Acronis for daily backup and WHM/S3 for weekly backups. One solution to avoid the Disk Usage overload and these cPanel Alerts during WHM Backups could be" 1 - Sequential compression and transportation of the backups to S3. 1. compression (1 account) 2. transportation (1 account) 3. deletion of the local file of the account "then, next cPanel account ! (again, and so on") I am pretty sure I already seen a cPanel Feature Request for Sequential Backups, but I cannot find it anymore. Can someone remind me where can I vote for this feature ? 2 - Another very smart solution to lighten my weekly WHM => S3 Backups would be the File Filters ! It would be very nice to have the ability to exclude certain files form the cPanel Account Backups : For example, I want to filter : - the error.log files (could be huge) - the local backup files */backup*.tar.gz (could be very old, we do not need to backup the backups) Other Backup Softwares offer that kind of useful file filters (see the image attached below). I wonder if there is a way in cPanel, with Command Lines and/or with a cPanel Config Files, to set these kind of file filters to exclude some unwanted files from the backups. I hope so ! :) It would be very appreciate if you guys from the cPanel team could give us an official answer. Merry Christmas and Happy new year! Thanks in advance!
For my part, I get it on a weekly basis, because I've chosen Acronis for daily backup and WHM/S3 for weekly backups. One solution to avoid the Disk Usage overload and these cPanel Alerts during WHM Backups could be" 1 - Sequential compression and transportation of the backups to S3. 1. compression (1 account) 2. transportation (1 account) 3. deletion of the local file of the account "then, next cPanel account ! (again, and so on") I am pretty sure I already seen a cPanel Feature Request for Sequential Backups, but I cannot find it anymore. Can someone remind me where can I vote for this feature ? 2 - Another very smart solution to lighten my weekly WHM => S3 Backups would be the File Filters ! It would be very nice to have the ability to exclude certain files form the cPanel Account Backups : For example, I want to filter : - the error.log files (could be huge) - the local backup files */backup*.tar.gz (could be very old, we do not need to backup the backups) Other Backup Softwares offer that kind of useful file filters (see the image attached below). I wonder if there is a way in cPanel, with Command Lines and/or with a cPanel Config Files, to set these kind of file filters to exclude some unwanted files from the backups. I hope so ! :) It would be very appreciate if you guys from the cPanel team could give us an official answer. Merry Christmas and Happy new year! Thanks in advance!
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Thanks a lot @quietFinn ! It works exactly as expected. I cannot figure how I missed this article 0 -
Thank you so much for offering help @quietFinn ! 0
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