How to remove user/account from cPanel backups (cpbackup)
Sometimes you may be required to remove a user from cPanel backups due to inode usage or directory size, in order to do that you can use the web interface to exclude those users in WHM, but i prefer to do everything through the backend, and for those of you who maybe want to write a shell script or something, you may need this as well.
There are two files you can use to remove a user or exclude specific directories from cPanels backup (cpbackup), those two files are:
/etc/cpbackup-userskip.conf
This is the file where you can specify specific users that are excluded from daily backups. One user per line.
/etc/cpbackup-exclude.conf
This is where you can specify specific folders to be excluded from backups. Since everything in this file is passed via pkgacct which uses tar -X (–exclude-from) /directory/cpbackup-exclude.conf.
Each entry in that file needs to be a PATTERN that tar understands. Here’s the info page for tar WRT its implemetation of exclude:
http://www.nada.kth.se/cgi-bin/info?(tar.info)exclude
You can also place one of these files in the users home directory as cpbackup-exclude.conf
I’m currently working on a script that will scan through the entire home directory of a cpanel server and output the results to a file showing each users inode usage. From that script it will also add any users over a specified inode count to the cpbackup-userskip.conf file. Once I have that posted you will have a way to see how to use the file.
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