Backup drive getting full

[myusername]

I tried my best to seed this thread so others searching can pull up relevant results.

Was it cpanelplus or cpanel scripts, cpanelhelp, cpanelsomething......

I saw a script about 2 years back that cross-read actual active users to past users.

When the backup partition gets full, you have to remove old sites, or use a removal script.

The goal of the script was to remove old backups for sites that were, at one time, customers of your firm.

I have /backup getting full. I need to remove tar files that are out of date. I suppose I can go in and remove every last modified, but would like to see the script that does that by itself.

Anyone know what thread that is, or the poster?

keywords:

backup, backup clean, backup removal, /backup, backup drive, backup script, backup full, mount,

[anand]

Is this what you are looking for ??

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

[myusername]

Yep thats the one. Thanks anand

in case your link breaks in the future for others the link likely will be here. the script is called cleanbackups.

http://www.cplicensing.net/scripts.php

[anand]

Originally posted by myusername
Yep thats the one. Thanks anand

np

in case your link breaks in the future for others the link likely will be here. the script is called cleanbackups.

http://www.cplicensing.net/scripts.php

well i thought might as well give you the direct link to the script, but this is better anyways

[heymichelle]

Is this what you are looking for ??

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

How exactly would I install this script?

I am a newbie at this, and no instructions was supplied with this script.

thanks

[Aric1]

Just wget the file from your server when logged in as root, chown the script to root, chmod the file to 0700 and run it (either perl scriptname or ./scriptname from within the same directory or /path/to/script/scriptname outside it.

[heymichelle]

Just wget the file from your server when logged in as root, chown the script to root, chmod the file to 0700 and run it (either perl scriptname or ./scriptname from within the same directory or /path/to/script/scriptname outside it.

I go into root by using SSH, than exactly what do i do?

whats the commands, etc..?

[PWSowner]

wget http://www.cplicensing.net/files/scripts/cleanbackups
chown root cleanbackups
chmod 0700 cleanbackups
perl cleanbackups

The 2nd line shouldn't be needed if you're logged in as root because it would automatically be owned by root, but it doesn't hurt to make sure.

[heymichelle]

Thanks again! Thats what i needed

[heymichelle]

wget http://www.cplicensing.net/files/scripts/cleanbackups
chown root cleanbackups
chmod 0700 cleanbackups
perl cleanbackups

The 2nd line shouldn't be needed if you're logged in as root because it would automatically be owned by root, but it doesn't hurt to make sure.

when I do this: perl cleanbackups - it displays this: Detected Old Backup... /backup/cpbackup/weekly/abdesign.tar.gz

Do I need to use another command in order to delete those old backups?

[PWSowner]

Not sure. I haven't used this script myself, but I'll take a look later to find out and let you know if nobody else has. I'm just getting ready to go out for a bit now, but will look at it when I get back.