Manual doing a backup of all accounts with the whm script, is it possible?

[AbeFroman]

I enabled monthly backups in whm but the latest backup is from Oct.

Is it possible to run the script that cpanel uses to backup account? Which script is that?

 

[AbeFroman]

I noticed that on half my servers(out of 10) backups were working, but there is not a recent(within over a month) backup in the /backup directory. I have ensured WHM is set to backup.

Has anyone else had this problem?

 

[kris1351]

Our remote backups stopped all together with the last few updates. We have never got weekly/monthly to work over remote connections so we have gone back to second drive backups.

 

[PWSowner]

You can run
/scripts/cpbackup
from shell if you want to do it manually.

 

[AbeFroman]

Does scripts /backup/cpbackup run on a cron? where can i find it?

How do it set the conf file for it so it will work even if the load is high:
# /scripts/cpbackup
tar: Removing leading `/' from member names
tar: Removing leading `/' from member names
tar: Removing leading `/' from member names
tar: Removing leading `/' from member names
tar: Removing leading `/' from member names
Waiting for load to go down to continue
tar: Removing leading `/' from member names
tar: Removing leading `/' from member names
tar: Removing leading `/' from member names
tar: Removing leading `/' from member names
tar: Removing leading `/' from member names
Waiting for load to go down to continue

I have a dual processor machine and the load is 2.51
and the top process is
26222 root 19 19 7732 6388 1624 S N 9.5 0.6 6:50 cpanellogd

 

[AbeFroman]

Also, on one of the server its doing directorys and not tar files for the backups....
/backup/cpbackup/monthly]# ls
./ bradbck/ cupidstr/ fotobymi/ jmcopou/ monsonm/ rjcustom/ taoitta/
../ brickwa/ davis/ fourgent/ jobli/ motorcyc/


How do i fix?

 

[PWSowner]

Originally posted by AbeFroman
Does scripts /backup/cpbackup run on a cron? where can i find it?

It runs when the cpanel upgrade (scripts/upcp) is run.
/var/spool/cron/root

Originally posted by AbeFroman
Also, on one of the server its doing directorys and not tar files for the backups....

Sounds like you probably have one set to incremental backup.