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



  • 132 Users Found This Useful

Was this answer helpful?

Related Articles

Failed to start tailwatchd - Unit tailwatchd service entered failed state

Failed to start tailwatchd. Unit tailwatchd.service entered failed state.  tailwatchd.service...

error: db3 error(-) from dbenv->failchk: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery

error: db3 error(-) from dbenv->failchk: DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery...

cPanel Account - PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library

PHP Warning:  PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library './xsl.so' - ./xsl.so: cannot open...

Disable cPanel Brute Force Command Line

To disable the cPanel brute force detection from the command line usee the following:...

This webpage is not available ERR_SSL_VERSION_OR_CIPHER_MISMATCH

This webpage is not availableERR_SSL_VERSION_OR_CIPHER_MISMATCHA secure connection cannot be...