easy way to delete backups of non-existant accounts?

[Funkadelic]

backup space is always an issue, especially with incremental backups. I'm wondering in an effort to save space if it is possible for some script or something that could automatically remove old backups of accounts that don't exist anymore? When you have hundreds of accounts it is a real hassle to do this manually.

[furquan]

This should help :

http://www.cplicensing.net/files/scripts/cleanbackups

[Zion Ahead]

I tried that script but getting this error.

[/scripts]# ./cleanbackups
Reading Backup Config...Complete
Warning: bad syntax, perhaps a bogus '-'? See /usr/share/doc/procps-3.2.3/FAQ

[MikeDVB]

Something that I'm running that may help is a cron job that deletes backup files that are older than 72 hours... So if you were doing daily backups any account that isn't backed up for 3 consecutive days would be pushed out of the system.

If you were doing weekly backups you could adjust it to 8 days or 15 days if you wanted.

You obviously would want to adjust the paths to the specifics of your server:

0 0 * * * find /backup -maxdepth 3 -name 'backup-*.tar.gz' -mtime +3 -exec rm {} \; ; find /backup -maxdepth 3 -name 'cpmove-*.tar.gz' -mtime +3 -exec rm {} \;

[Zion Ahead]

That didn't do anything for me.

[yapluka]

This is what we use :

bakdir=$(grep BACKUPDIR /etc/cpbackup.conf | awk '{print $2}');cd "$bakdir"/cpbackup/daily/;for user in *;do if [ ! -e "/var/cpanel/users/"$user"" ] && [ "$user" != "files" ] && [ "$user" != "dirs" ]; then rm -rf "$bakdir"/cpbackup/*/"$user";fi;done

Replace daily with weekly or monthly if you don't have daily backups.

[Zion Ahead]

What is the non-cron command to run manually?

[yapluka]

My command is not a cron command, and will delete all backups of non existent accounts.
If you want to run it automatically, your best option is to add it to /scripts/postcpbackup (create it if it doesn't already exist), so it will be executed after cpbackup is complete.

[bornonline]

NDCHost - Clean Backups plug-in for cPanel/WHM

[shaun]

I tried that script but getting this error.

[/scripts]# ./cleanbackups
Reading Backup Config...Complete
Warning: bad syntax, perhaps a bogus '-'? See /usr/share/doc/procps-3.2.3/FAQ

The above plug-in replaces that script. The plug-in gives you many more features and the ability to automate the process!