external backup : email when fails & automatic deletion of older backups ?

[trucmuche]

Hello,

I have a VPS running CentOS & WHM/Cpanel, and I have another external account to store backups of VPS accounts.
I configured WHM to backup every account using FTP on that second account and it works perfectly : it stores daily backups on separate folders named /BACKUPS/2020-12-15, /BACKUPS/2020-12-16 and so on. But after some days, of course, the available space runs out.

The first thing I see is that I do not receive an email to tell me that a backup couldn't be fully transferred.
How can I configure WHM to be warned when a backup fails ??

Then, I'm wondering how I could remove the older backup automatically when there is no sufficient space to transfer the backup of the day.

Could you help me ?

Many thanks,

T.

 

[andrew.n]

Unfortunately cPanel won't be able to remove the backups as it's hosted externally. Make sure you have the correct email set in contact details under Basic WHM Settings.

 

[trucmuche]

Can cPanel do something when a FTP error like "452 Transfer aborted. No space left on device" is catched ? If it can execute a script on the external host, I could write a script on the external server to delete the oldest backup...

 

[andrew.n]

No, cPanel can't execute anything on the external host unfortunately however upon a failure it should notify you if your contact is set properly.

 

[trucmuche]

Ok so... How does people do ? I think I'm not the only one who wants a daily backup of all accounts stored on an external server, and having a good 'rotation' of those backups where oldest are deleted to make available space for the newest ones... How do they do ?

 

[cPRex]

If there is a backup failure we will send a notification, but as @andrew.n mentioned, we can't do anything on the remote side except perform the data move.

 

[trucmuche]

If there is a backup failure we will send a notification, but as @andrew.n mentioned, we can't do anything on the remote side except perform the data move.

Yes OK, I understood that. And I replied : "Ok so... How does people do ? I think I'm not the only one who wants a daily backup of all accounts stored on an external server, and having a good 'rotation' of those backups where oldest are deleted to make available space for the newest ones... How do they do ?"
I can't believe that I'm the only one who wants to store my backups externally...

 

[cPRex]

I understand what you are saying now - thank you for that clarification.

cPanel does prune the remote backups in the same way that it does the local backups. There is not a separate configuration option for that. If that isn't working how you expect it may be best to submit a ticket so we can investigate the backup logs and see where the problem may be.

 

[trucmuche]

Ok... I just opened a ticket...

 

[cPRex]

@trucmuche - if you could share the ticket number here I can make sure to keep the thread updated with our progress.