new server will not do DAILY backup.

The new server insists on archiving backups like this:

drwx--x--x 304 root root 12288 Oct 1 10:14 Friday_20101001/
drwx--x--x 311 root root 12288 Oct 4 09:59 Monday_20101004/
drwx--x--x 309 root root 12288 Oct 3 09:29 Sunday_20101003/



And this of course fills up our backup drive regularly.

We've got the backup config (in WHM) set exactly the same way as our other servers where we see only this on in the cpbackup directory:

drwx--x--x 433 root root 12288 Oct 4 01:00 daily/


What's the trick here? We need to only get the daily backup going where everyday is not stored as separate archive.

 

Thanks for your response, but I have no idea what you are referring to.

 

Thanks for your assistance.

Here is the output of that file for the server in question:

BACKUP2 yes
BACKUPACCTS yes
BACKUPCHECK yes
BACKUPDAYS 0,1,2,3,4,5,6
BACKUPDIR /backup
BACKUPENABLE yes
BACKUPFILES no
BACKUPFTPDIR
BACKUPFTPHOST
BACKUPFTPPASSIVE no
BACKUPFTPUSER
BACKUPINC yes
BACKUPINT daily
BACKUPLOGS no
BACKUPMOUNT yes
BACKUPRETDAILY 1
BACKUPRETMONTHLY 0
BACKUPRETWEEKLY 0
BACKUPTYPE normal
COMPRESSACCTS no
DIEIFNOTMOUNTED yes
GZIPRSYNCOPTS --rsyncable
MYSQLBACKUP accounts

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Just for comparison, here is the output of the same file from a different cPanel server that has no problem in this regard:

BACKUP2 yes
BACKUPACCTS yes
BACKUPCHECK yes
BACKUPDAYS 0,1,2,3,4,5,6
BACKUPDIR /backup
BACKUPENABLE yes
BACKUPFILES no
BACKUPFTPDIR
BACKUPFTPHOST
BACKUPFTPPASSIVE no
BACKUPFTPUSER
BACKUPINC yes
BACKUPINT daily
BACKUPLOGS no
BACKUPMOUNT yes
BACKUPRETDAILY 1
BACKUPRETMONTHLY 0
BACKUPRETWEEKLY 0
BACKUPTYPE normal
COMPRESSACCTS no
DIEIFNOTMOUNTED yes
GZIPRSYNCOPTS --rsyncable
MYSQLBACKUP accounts

 

On the first server, the one with the issue, the backup drive keeps threatening to fill up, I noticed just today in /cpbackup:

drwx--x--x 311 root root 12288 Oct 4 09:59 Monday_20101004/
drwx--x--x 309 root root 12288 Oct 3 09:29 Sunday_20101003/
drwx--x--x 312 root root 12288 Oct 5 10:25 Tuesday_20101005/
drwx--x--x 318 root root 12288 Oct 6 10:04 Wednesday_20101006/


On the second server (comparison example in the post just before this one), as well as all of our other cPanel servers, the /cpbackup directory looks like the following and never threatens to overfill the backup drive:

drwx--x--x 402 root root 12288 Oct 6 01:00 daily/

 

One more observation:

I did notice the other day, that during the cpbackup run, it does indeed make a /daily directory, but then apparently as a last step it changes the name of the directory to something like Wednesday_20101006/