Downloading and deleting old backups

JunCol

• June 19, 2015 21:16

Hi, Been using the legacy backup in WHM. Recently found out that the newer backup system allow to set how many copies to retain, thus we switched over to it. Is there a way to quickly download and delete the existing backups created by the legacy backup system? I'm not familiar with SSH. Did tried to use puTTy, create private & publics keys etc...but still failed. btw, i'm using a vps service from a hosting company. root access is given to us.

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  24x7ss

  • June 20, 2015 15:07

  If you are having root access of the VPS then you can use FTP (filezilla or cuteftp or winscp) to connect to the server then go inside /backup folder there you can see the backup files. You can download the files into your local machine. Once download gets completed then you can delete the files/folders using same application there is no need to do SSH. I will suggest you to go with winscp it is simple and easy to use.

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  JunCol

  • June 22, 2015 01:30

  i tried it. It keep giving this error in Filezilla. Is there something that needs to be turned on in WHM? ------------ Response: 331 User root OK. Password required Command: PASS ********** Response: 530 Login authentication failed Error: Critical error Error: Could not connect to server -------------

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  JunCol

  • June 22, 2015 03:34

  alright. i managed to log in now. the hostname should be sftp://xxxxxxxxxxxx and port 8288 instead. In it, i can't see any backup folders. i did something wrong agaon? ---------- root -.cpan -.cpanel -.cpobjache -.gnupg -.HttpRequest -.MirrorSearch -.pki -.putty -.razor -.spamassassin -.ssh -cpanel3-skel -perl5 -public_ftp -public_html -tmp --------------------------------

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  JunCol

  • June 23, 2015 08:22

  goodness me. i've found it. after login, it is showing the folder and subfolders for "root". i went up 1 level of directory, and there it is, the "backup" folder!.

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  cPanelMichael

  • July 13, 2015 12:57

  Hello :) I am happy to see you were able to determine the correct location for the existing backup archives and successfully remove them. Thank you for updating us with the outcome.

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  Guv

  • September 29, 2015 14:11

  Hi, When the backups are deleted using WinSCP is there anything that needs to be done to shrink the database? I have almos run out of space and deleted a 6GB file but the space issue remains. Thanks

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  cPanelMichael

  • October 03, 2015 17:49

  New Hi, When the backups are deleted using WinSCP is there anything that needs to be done to shrink the database? I have almos run out of space and deleted a 6GB file but the space issue remains. Thanks

  
  Hello :) Which database are you referring to? Thank you.

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