Killing cPanel Backups via Command Line / Shell

From time to time you may find the cPanel backup system taking longer and affecting production hours for websites. The following commands will kill the cPanel backup processes. Running the below commands twice may be necessary:

killall -9 cpbackup
killall -9 backup
killall -9 tar
killall -9 gtar
killall -9 pkgacct
killall -9 gunzip2 
killall -9 pkgacct
service cpanel restart



If it is still slow afterward run:

ps aux


Locate the backup process with the high load and run: 
kill -9 #process



  • 134 Users Found This Useful

Was this answer helpful?

Related Articles

Manually Clear from Console / Command Line cPanel Exim Mail Queue

To clear the cPanel exim mail queue quickly from a command line / shell use the following...

Remount /tmp with exec permission

There are times where you may need to have exec permission available for the /tmp folder. This...

Account's error_log produces flood of missing modules

 Account's error_log produces flood of missing modules. Ex:   From error_log:     [23-Apr-2018...

CSF Error: *WARNING* Binary location for [HOST] [/usr/bin/host] in /etc/csf/csf-conf is either incorrect, is not installed or is not executable

During a CSF start or restart you may encounter this error. This is a result of /usr/bin/host...

cPanel Max Defers Occurring for an Account

While viewing exim_mainlog and seeing the following:   enforce_mail_permissions: Domain...