How to start a cPanel scheduled backup job manually

Date posted: 18/09/2019

Objective:-

If you own cPanel server and tried to enable backup using WHM. When you manually run backups from command line, you will get the below errors. 

[root@hosting1 ~]# /usr/local/cpanel/bin/backup
[cpbackup] Backup Not Enabled (This can be adjusted in WHM => Backup => Legacy Backup Configuration)

We’re gonna explain how to solve the issue.

Solution:-

Even though the settings are correctly set in WHM. In the commandline it will say its not enabled.

To resolve that we need to forcefully run the backups using –force

$ /usr/local/cpanel/bin/backup --force
[2019-09-18 07:44:46 +0000] info [backup] Started at Wed Sep 18 07:44:46 2019
[2019-09-18 07:44:46 +0000] info [backup] The backup is now running in the background in process 19601.
[2019-09-18 07:44:46 +0000] info [backup] The backup process’s log file is “/usr/local/cpanel/logs/cpbackup/1568792686.log”.

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