Limit Backups by Disk Space and Inode count

Their is already a place to enable inodes display ( for cpanel )

Tweek Settings> Display > Display File Usage

Information in the cPanel stats bar (inode count)

But i dont see where i can add a max limit of files aloud.

Having the option to disable backups for accounts bigger than x GB or with more than x inodes, would be great!

Inode count is already displayed on cpanel ....

If you tell me WHERE is this stored, I can code some script/cron for backups like this (but using inodes, instead of disk space, or use combination of both).

It would be GREAT if someone do a plugin or cpanel intergates this into the backup and/or packages (inode limitations, or backup disable by default inode/space value, plus a way to allow more on specified users) it should not be hard to do for them.

1. #!/bin/bash
2. max_size="2097152" # This is 2097152KB or 2GB
3. for u in `ls /var/cpanel/users/`;
4. do
5. size=$(repquota -a | grep ${u}|awk '{print $3}'|sort -k 1 -nr|head -1);
6. if [ "${size}" -ge "${max_size}" ];
7. then
8. echo "${u}" >> /tmp/cpbackup-userskip.conf;
9. fi;
10. done;
11. sort -u /tmp/cpbackup-userskip.conf /etc/cpbackup-userskip.conf > /tmp/cpbackup-userskip.conf.uniq;
12. cp -f /tmp/cpbackup-userskip.conf.uniq /etc/cpbackup-userskip.conf;
13. rm -f /tmp/cpbackup-userskip.conf*;

This would be extremely helpful. We had some custom coding that threw a size error if your account was more than a certain size, but that seems to not work with the new backup mechanism.

Even a way to disable user generated backups by username would help at his point. :) Maybe an exclude user file as suggested by CAS above that can be edited to add users...

Agreed!

We have scripts in place for this already but maintaining them is problematic. Love to see this one.

would love to see this as well.

I would want to limit backups when they reach a set amount of disk space / Inodes.

As storage space has become cheaper this has become a MAJOR problem - especially when selling 'unlimited' style accounts.

Not developed yet? :(

I vote on an option in legacy and new backup system that says Don´t backup accounts over X MB or GB. It´s not worth backing up accounts over 5 ~ 10GB.

It will be nice to see this feature.

cPanel team can provide us a simple answer ?

It will be or not implemented after all ?

Hello, in your proposal does "package size limit" refer to the account disk quota?

Sounds complicated to manage from a customer support point of view. In case of a server crash your customer would loose all his files because he has too many of them. Instead of warning your customer he has too many files, shouldn't you limit the size of his account to correspond to thee amount of backup you include ?

Hope this comes in the next time.... would reduce workload.

this thread is the same features here

https://features.cpanel.net/topic/include-backup-size-to-account-size-used

https://features.cpanel.net/topic/local-backups-size-limit

Please add to this, a warning that appears in the user's cPanel, and / or an email sent to the contact address with notification of the same.

Also it would be nice if there was an API call for this to check if backups were enabled / disabled for an account with reason for the same. That way we can put notifications in our billing panels and internal mailing systems and not just the one in cPanel which some users may never see.

e.g.

enabled=0

reason=Inodes exceed quota

reason=Manually excluded

reason=Disk exceeds quota

Hello,

Please add this feature. On my job I control more than 30 servers and this option will save me a lot of time.

I would also like this option to prevent users using too much space simply by backing up their files multiple times.