Help - Search - Members - Calendar
Full Version: Backups - when are they done
The Planet Forums > Control Panels > cPanel/WHM
soupn
Hello,

i have cpanel configured to do a daily, weekly and monthly backup. How/where can i see when (day and hour) it will be done?

thks in advance.
Quiddity
cpanel backups are run as a root cronjob. run 'crontab -l' as root to view the crontab for root, and look for the job that calls /scripts/cpbackup. By default this should run at 1 am every day.

cPanel bases it's backups on the ctime stamp of the last backup archive. If one doesn't exist, cpanel will immediately create a copy of that archive. Otherwise, it will check each files timestamp when run, and then create a new archive if the last archive is more than 6 days old ( weekly ) or 29 days old ( monthly ).

- Steve
soupn
0 1 * * * /scripts/cpbackup
1am time of local machine.
This is a "lo-fi" version of our main content. To view the full version with more information, formatting and images, please click here.
Invision Power Board © 2001-2009 Invision Power Services, Inc.