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Posted: **Mon Mar 14, 2011 1:14 pm**

When you delete accounts, cpanel does not remove the associated backup which can cause a lot of uneeded disk usage over time.

I mocked up this 'clean orphaned backups' script this morning out of boredom. If DELETE is not equal to yes, the script will only print what it would delete

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#!/bin/sh

BACKUP_DIR=/backup/cpbackup/daily
HOME=/home
KEEP=(cpbackupstatus.cfg dirs files)
DELETE=no

for x in `ls ${BACKUP_DIR}`; do
  ls ${HOME}/${x} > /dev/null 2>&1
  if [ $? != 0 ]; then
    if ! echo ${KEEP[*]} | grep ${x} > /dev/null 2>&1; then
      echo "Deleting ${x}"
      if [ ${DELETE} == "yes" ]; then
        rm -rf ${BACKUP_DIR}/${x}
      fi
    fi
  fi
done

Posted: **Mon Mar 14, 2011 10:53 pm**

We don't want to knock your work and clever approach, but you might want to try this free plugin from NDCHost. Yes, they are a competitor but they do have a few freebies we have found to be most helpful.

http://www.ndchost.com/cpanel-whm/plugins/

The Clean Backups plugin also gets weekly and monthly backups if they exist and you can set the number of days before cleaning them out.

Posted: **Mon Mar 14, 2011 11:21 pm**

Thanks khimaira2. Your not knocking my work. I had found NDCHost's plugin, but since I was unfamiliar with their work, I decided to not to install it and do my own since it was such a simple issue.

Posted: **Tue Mar 15, 2011 11:20 pm**

We can say we found their plugins easy to install and helpful. The DNS Check rarely provides any information of use, but we guess finding a single problem would make it worthwhile. The Mod_Security plugin does give a slightly different and useful perspective as a complement to the ConfigServer Mod_Security plugin. The Clean Backups plugin provides a nice interface with complete automation and logging.

All in all, they are pretty useful until Arf gets up to speed writing cpanel plugins.

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