cPanel Admin Tips & Hints

Category Archives: Disks and Files

Automate backups using rsync

Posted on October 27, 2012 by John

Sure, you could use cPanel’s built in backup function to create nice, tidy backups of each user’s account every day – you can even have it FTP those backups to another server of your choice for safe keeping. That’s not … Continue reading →

Posted in Backups, Disks and Files | 5 Comments

Automatically delete old email from an account (aging)

Posted on March 9, 2011 by John

Let’s say you have a mail account set up just to collect daily “junk” email that you might or might not want to look at later (so, like one step above spam).  Maybe it’s the weekly specials from your favorite … Continue reading →

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QUICK TIP: Use chattr to prevent anyone from modifying a file

Posted on March 8, 2011 by John

If you are dead-set determined to keep a file on your server from EVER being modified by anyone, including the root user, here’s the command that will do it (you must elevate to a superuser (su) or be logged in … Continue reading →

Posted in Disks and Files, Quick Tips | 2 Comments

How to get a sorted disk usage report automaticaly emailed to you every month

Posted on March 2, 2011 by John

Even though a lot of this information can be gained in one way or another right from within cPanel, I still like to get a file e-mailed to me every month with a sorted list of the folders on my … Continue reading →

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