clean your cPanel server and adjust user's files permission

OvzWeb

hello

1- To clean your server :

note : this command will remove all .gz files stored in /home

rm -rf /home/*.gz (be careful with that)

note : this command will Empty cPanel users trash and remove all backup files created by cpanel user

rm -rfv /home/*/.trash;rm -rfv /home/*/backup*

note : this command will remove all backup files created by cpanel user and stores under public_html

rm -rfv /home/*/public_html/backup*
note : this command will remove all backup files created by server admin and stored under user home dir

rm -rfv /home/*/cpmove*

2- To adjust user's files permission

/scripts/enablefileprotect

/scripts/chownpublichtmls

Bogdacutuu

@OvzWeb said:

rm -rf /home/*.gz

what? no!

OvzWeb

@Bogdacutuu said:
what? no!

to remove any .gz backup files in /home

D3vil

oh man...

BlazeMuis

So you're just removing backups from clients?

VPSSimon

This is mainly done when alot of clients have multiple backups an have of them now redundent as months old, So cleaning old backups is very very useful to claw back disk space. Although might seem counter-productive, Its simple to -rerun fresh backups or just do cleanup once every 6months just an hour before crons for backups runs.

That way clients still have backups. - There should be no reason a client would want backups from 6 months ago, Clients prefer recent backups not outdated archives.

OvzWeb

@VPSSimon said:
This is mainly done when alot of clients have multiple backups an have of them now redundent as months old, So cleaning old backups is very very useful to claw back disk space. Although might seem counter-productive, Its simple to -rerun fresh backups or just do cleanup once every 6months just an hour before crons for backups runs.

That way clients still have backups. - There should be no reason a client would want backups from 6 months ago, Clients prefer recent backups not outdated archives.

in cPanel servers usually backup stored in /backup/cpbackup

VPSSimon

This is true but i think some functions do store in /home/ as ive personally cleaned a clients vps recently which had alot of backups in /home/ But also contained backups for SQL within /home/$username

So the above commands wouldn't fully clean But would help clean up majority. I wouldn't personally mess with cpbackup folder leave cpanel to do rotation an clean on that. Just ones outside normal cpanel cleanups i.e home dir.

CentrioHost

for user in '/bin/ls -A /var/cpanel/users' ; do rm -fv /home/$user/backup-*$user.tar.gz ; done

for user in '/bin/ls -A /var/cpanel/users' ; do rm -rf /home/$user/backup-*$user ; done

The commands are safe to remove user created backups.

OvzWeb

@CentrioHost said:
The commands are safe to remove user created backups.

Very Nice Commands
are you allow to edit post and insert your command ?

tommy

@OvzWeb said:
hello

1- To clean your server :

note : this command will remove all .gz files stored in /home

rm -rf /home/*.gz

I prefer
rm -rf * /home/*.gz.backup
kidding

tommy

double post ------------

prae5

@VPSSimon said:
That way clients still have backups. - There should be no reason a client would want backups from 6 months ago, Clients prefer recent backups not outdated archives.

Disagree!!!!!!

postcd

This command is dangerous!!!
rm -rfv /home//public_html/backup

can remove any files or directories which name starts "backup" which i dont think is wanted! even serious client files can be named that way