Some of you reading this may be familiar with a script we wrote a few years back called cleanbackups. For those of you who are not, the basic principle of this script was to clean your cPanel backup directory by removing backups that were still hanging around for accounts that had been removed. The previous version of cleanbackups was a script that had to be run through the command line, or if an administrator wanted to automate the process, had to configured to run via a cron job. The previous version was basic and lacked many of the features our customers wanted to see! So we took all the feedback we received from the previous version and started fresh. Our main goal was to make it easier to use and more feature rich, and the result is this brand-new WHM plugin!
A few key features:
- WHM Plugin — This allows administrators/staff who are not comfortable working on the command line to use the plugin through a simple web interface.
- Auto Cleaning — You can now enable or disable the auto cleaning job through the WHM.
- BackupTTL — Specify how many days you want to keep backups of non-existent users before they are removed; defaults to 60 days.
- Log View — Easily see what backups where removed and when by looking at the recent activity monitor in the WHM.
To learn more about the cleanbackups plugin, please visit our plugins section.

6 Responses to "*NEW* CleanBackups cPanel/WHM Plugin Released!"
the download file is corrupt do you have an alternative link to it? or can you fix the file
Steve,
The download seems to be working fine for me. When you run through the instructions can your server not find the install file on the mirror or are you getting a specific error when executing it?
How do i uninstall it?
Liz,
Remove the following files/directories to uninstall:
/var/cpanel/cleanbackups/
/usr/local/cpanel/whostmgr/docroot/cleanbackups/
/usr/local/cpanel/whostmgr/docroot/cleanbackups/addon_cleanbackups.cgi
This script is not finding my backups. The drive is mounted and see nothing.
Charles,
Have you verified the backup partition is mounted at the correct location and actually contains data? If so, please drop us a support request and we would be happy to look into the matter.
https://helpdesk.ndchost.com/index.php?/Tickets/Submit