Suppress Disabled cPanel Backups Alert?

epaslv

• November 09, 2017 17:51

I am not a fan of the new backups system and prefer the legacy version. I only use 1 retention as the backups are rsynced offsite after local backups are finished. Here are the main reasons. 1 - When a daily backup is being performed, the removes days backup is only removed after the current daily backup is completed. This means the system will consume 2 times the disk usage. This is a deal breaker for me and means I need to double storage. The legacy backups don't have this overhead. 2 - The system also consumes additional storage for meta files, which are unnecessary when retention is 1 Since legacy backups are being removed, I resorted to running my own script that runs /usr/local/cpanel/scripts/pkgacct for each account which has been working fine. The only issue now is keep getting the warnings below warn [backup] Backup Not Enabled (This can be adjusted in WHM => Backup => Backup Configuration) Does anyone know how to suppress this warning being sent?

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  24x7server

  • November 10, 2017 04:25

  Hi, The warning will continue to be send unless you configure it. One way round for this would be that you configure this backup and unselect all the users from the backup list, so the backup will start and end in short time and you can continue with your own backup script that you said..

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  epaslv

  • November 10, 2017 13:15

  Hi, The warning will continue to be send unless you configure it. One way round for this would be that you configure this backup and unselect all the users from the backup list, so the backup will start and end in short time and you can continue with your own backup script that you said..

  
  I thought about this but its not a good option because as soon as a new account is created, backups for that account will be enabled by default. You can't remove the backup from cron either, since cPanel just puts it back.

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  cPanelMichael

  • November 10, 2017 15:35

  The only issue now is keep getting the warnings below warn [backup] Backup Not Enabled (This can be adjusted in WHM => Backup => Backup Configuration) Does anyone know how to suppress this warning being sent?

  
  Hello, This comes from the backup cron job. You can delete the backup cron job (if it's not needed) to prevent it from running via the following command:
  crontab -e
  This will open the root crontab with your server's default text editor, which you can use to remove the line referencing the following command:
  /usr/local/cpanel/bin/backup
  Or, if you want to keep the cron job enabled, you can modify the line so that it looks like this and it will simply silence the alert:
  0 2 * * * /usr/local/cpanel/bin/backup >/dev/null 2>&1
  Thank you.

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  cPanelMichael

  • November 20, 2017 18:46

  Hello, To update, this is fixed in cPanel verison 68.0.16: Fixed case CPANEL-16887: Backups: avoid sending cron emails when disabled. Thank you.

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