Lowering backup count (Removing excess backups)

ahoychris

• October 14, 2013 08:18

Ok, so I store 5 daily backups of my WHM server accounts, backups run once a week on Sunday. However due to a few larger sites and storing a single offsite backup of another server I need to lower my retained backups to 3. I've changed the setting in Backup configuration in Whm to 3. However I'm aware they are still there in my /backup directory on the server. Is there a clean way to delete the 2 extra backups I no longer need to store? Or am I safe to simply delete these via SSH?

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  quietFinn

  • October 14, 2013 13:38

  [quote="ahoychris, post: 1481751">Ok, so I store 5 daily backups of my WHM server accounts, backups run once a week on Sunday. However due to a few larger sites and storing a single offsite backup of another server I need to lower my retained backups to 3. I've changed the setting in Backup configuration in Whm to 3. However I'm aware they are still there in my /backup directory on the server. Is there a clean way to delete the 2 extra backups I no longer need to store? Or am I safe to simply delete these via SSH?
  Yes you can just delete them.

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  ahoychris

  • October 14, 2013 14:26

  Thank you. From 95% to 75% full disk. Now I can finally stop manually backing up and removing small sites.

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  cPanelMichael

  • October 15, 2013 18:49

  Hello :) Yes, manually deleting the backup directories is acceptable here. Note that the directories would be removed automatically as well during the next backup generation. Thank you.

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