cPanel backups stopped being made suddenly

Hello,

i noticed that for past many days daily backups suddenly stopped being created by WHM (im doing local backups (no Legacy ones) to the WHM server hard drive)

I checked Backup configuration from WHM and backups are enabled. It just suddenly stopped and no new backups are automatically made by schedule.

# df -h | grep -v virtfs

(so there is enough space i assume)

# ls -lt /usr/local/cpanel/logs/cpbackup | head

(last backup log file is Oct 8, now is Oct 19)

# ps ax | grep back

Please any ideas what to do to make backups working again?

Someone mentioned how to run backup manually, but i assume it do not solve the issue i have?
# /usr/local/cpanel/bin/backup --force

thank you

 

SOLVED
Thanks alot Michael, that helped. Crond was running, so i restarted it. Then i killed these hanged backup processes as you suggested and today i see new daily backups was created. Not sure why backup processes was hanged, but it appears backups are working again now.

 

The issue repeats, please is there any command that i can run via cron to automatically kill the backup processes if they run too long? time?

 

Because issue with hanged backups continued i tried to add this script into crontab:

Code:

#!/bin/bash
# This script will kill process which running more than X hours
# egrep: only processes matching set phrasses
# grep: only processes running more than X (30) hours

PIDS="`ps eaxo bsdtime,pid,comm | egrep "pkgacc|pkgggg|pkkkkk" | grep " 30:" | awk '{print $2}'`"
for pid in ${PIDS}; do { kill -9 $pid; }; done;