pkgacct no compress question

iso99

• March 06, 2016 02:33

Afaik, using no-compress option in pkgacct still produces a .tar archive. Will compressing it manually yield a similar full cPanel backup file? I'm just checking if the contents of --no-compress and without it are similar.

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  Jcats

  • March 06, 2016 16:56

  With compression: cpmove-user.tar.gz Without compression cpmove-user.tar The backup structure stays exactly the same, just the 'x' option is not used when using tar, so the backup size will be bigger but may save you some CPU usage if that is your concern.

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  cPanelMichael

  • March 08, 2016 14:58

  I'm just checking if the contents of --no-compress and without it are similar.

  
  Hello :) No, you are likely to see a size difference. For example, here's the size difference of a test account, one with the "--no-compress" flag (.tar), and one without the "--no-compress" flag (.tar.gz):
  # du -sh cpmove* 1.9M cpmove-cptest01.tar 620K cpmove-cptest01.tar.gz
  Thank you.

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  iso99

  • March 11, 2016 01:20

  With compression: cpmove-user.tar.gz Without compression cpmove-user.tar The backup structure stays exactly the same, just the 'x' option is not used when using tar, so the backup size will be bigger but may save you some CPU usage if that is your concern.

  
  Yup, CPU and IO is actually my concern but wrapping them in LVE is a better idea, even with compression. It took 2 hours though for an 8gb account to be packaged.

  Hello :) No, you are likely to see a size difference. For example, here's the size difference of a test account, one with the "--no-compress" flag (.tar), and one without the "--no-compress" flag (.tar.gz):
  # du -sh cpmove* 1.9M cpmove-cptest01.tar 620K cpmove-cptest01.tar.gz
  Thank you.

  
  Additional question, where is the file configuration for the Backup WHM (not the legacy) user exclusion? Is this the only file that cPanel checks to see if an account will be excluded for the scheduled backups? Thanks!

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  cPanelMichael

  • March 11, 2016 14:10

  Additional question, where is the file configuration for the Backup WHM (not the legacy) user exclusion? Is this the only file that cPanel checks to see if an account will be excluded for the scheduled backups?

  
  Hello :) The backup account exclusion setting is stored in the account's cPanel user file:
  root@server [~]# grep BACKUP /var/cpanel/users/cptest01 BACKUP=1 LEGACY_BACKUP=1
  Setting the values to 0 will disable backups for that account. Thank you.

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  iso99

  • March 16, 2016 10:24

  Thanks! If I edit this file and changed BACKUP=0, should I run /usr/local/cpanel/scripts/updateuserdomains? Can I run this right I edit after several files, instead of per user edit?

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  cPanelMichael

  • March 16, 2016 14:47

  If I edit this file and changed BACKUP=0, should I run /usr/local/cpanel/scripts/updateuserdomains? Can I run this right I edit after several files, instead of per user edit?

  
  Yes, that command rebuilds the cache. You can run it after editing multiple zones. Thank you.

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