From Terminal in cPanel or from an SSH session as root (or an account with backup restoring privileges), navigate to the folder the cPanel backup
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Category: Tasks
Find largest folder in SSH
Is your cPanel server running out of space? Need to find out where the usage is coming from? Finding the largest folder is as easy
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Find Current Inode Usage Using SSH
Need to find out how many inodes each user is using on your cPanel server? Simply run the following command from SSH: cd /home echo
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cPanel Find and Delete Trash Folders
If you find you have a lot of users with large amounts of files in their Trash in cPanel, you can run the following command
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Find and Remove a File or Folder in SSH
Need to find and remove a particular file and/or folder and know the name, but not the location? Use the following command to find and
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cPanel Log Locations
cPanel All cPanel logs are located in the folder: /usr/local/cpanel/logs The access_log contains all traffic to WHM, cPanel, and Webmail: /usr/local/cpanel/logs/access_log The error_log contains all errors
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How To See Which Modules Are Enabled For Apache
How do I see which modules are currently enabled/installed for Apache? You can simply enter the following command from an SSH session to give a
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Manually Export MySQL Database
How do I manually export or "dump" a MySQL database from command line or SSH? You can dump a MySQL database to the current folder
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Search For Specific Text In File
How can I find a specific text string in a file or multiple files from an SSH session? You can use the grep command to
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Bulk Edit DNS Zone On cPanel
How do I bulk edit a DNS zone on cPanel? Changed nameserver name and need to update all the DNS zones on your cPanel server?
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Explanation Of Cron Times
New to setting up cron jobs and need to know what each digit means? The following is an example of each digit and its function:
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Find And Remove Old cPanel Backups
How do I find and remove old cPanel backups? Use the following command from an SSH session to find all backups that are older than
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Create Cpmove File From Incremental cPanel Backup
How to create a cpmove file from a cPanel incremental backup? A cpmove file can be created by running the following command from an SSH
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cPanel Package Account
How to package (make a full account backup) a cPanel account from SSH? From an SSH session, run the following command: /scripts/pkgacct <username> <destination> Where
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Change All Folders To 755 And Files To 644
How to reset file/folder permissions to folder to 755 and files to 644? Run the following command from an SSH session: chmod -R ugo-x,u+rwX,go+rX,go-w <path>
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