Backup cron optimization

Backup cron optimization (6 Replies, Read 21158 times)

sparek	February 27, 2021, 7:54 pm
Group: Member Post Group: Working Newbie Posts: 74 Status:	It seems that when users have a backup scheduled for their Softaculous installations - when those backups run, they all run simultaneously. Would a better solution be to do these sequentially? Run one backup, wait for it to finish, before starting another backup. When a use schedules a backup it would seem to add a cron to the user's crontab: /usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/bin/php -d disable_functions="" "/usr/local/cpanel/whostmgr/docroot/cgi/softaculous"/cli.php --backup --auto=1 --insid=XXXXXXXX This presumably sets a flag some where, so that root's cron knows to actually do the backup. And then when root's cron runs: /usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/bin/php -d disable_functions="" /usr/local/cpanel/whostmgr/docroot/cgi/softaculous/do_backups.php all of the backups - across all users - all run at once. This can create a huge disk i/o usage because all of those backups are trying to run at the same time. I think it would be better logic for /usr/local/cpanel/whostmgr/docroot/cgi/softaculous/do_backups.php to do one user's backup, wait for it to finish, and then move on to the next backup.
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