Cpbackup --force

[fazaha]

hi,

i wanted to know , how can i config cPanel backups to run in force mod (i mean the cpnackup cronjob) , i want a way that i can enable cpbackup --force every time it runs via cronjob!

Thanks

[thewebhosting]

To force a backup you will have to run /scripts/cpbackup.

[sneader]

As you may or may not know, cPanel does not remove old backups from /backup/cpbackup, even if you terminate a customer. Perhaps this is by design. But in any event, it can waste space over time.

Tonight I cleaned up some of the backups from old customers. I noticed later that my daily backup did not run. The log says "Daily Backup is up to date". It occurs to me that it must have seen my recent activity in that directory, and assumes that there is no need to run the backup now?

I tried to re-run /scripts/cpbackup but the same thing occurs.

Is there a way to truly force the daily backup to run?

- Scott

[sneader]

OK, I figured it out. I had to change the timestamp on the daily directory, to fool cpbackup into running:

# touch -t 201003160100.00 /backup/cpbackup/daily
# /scripts/cpbackup --force

Works!

FYI, the touch date/time is in the format of YYYYMMDDhhmm.ss -- the above example is setting the directory timestamp to March 16, 2010 at 1AM.

- Scott

[fazaha]

But non of these are my answers i want to run --force mode for each cron

[sneader]

"i want a way that i can enable cpbackup --force every time it runs via cronjob!"

Can you ask the question again, a different way? I do not understand what you want.

- Scott

[fazaha]

Yeap i can say that in other way :
When we config backups in cPanel it creats a CronJob for it!
but cPanel runs /scripts/cpbackup , and if it has problems with timestamps , will show us an error that :
Daily Backup is upto date .

i am looking for a way that cpanel runs : /scripts/cpbackup --force everytime it wanna run backups!

did you get it?

[kernow]

Have you tried editing the cron job ? Like maybe:
#0 6 * * * /scripts/cpbackup --force

[sneader]

As I mentioned above, when I used --force, it didn't solve the timestamp problem for me.

I had to manually 'touch' the directory with an older date.

Fazaha -- why are you having all these problems with backup? I think you should get help for the problem, rather than trying this "work around".

- Scott