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cPanel Automatic Deletion of Old Backup Files

We will automatically delete old backup files in cPanel with cronjob.

Below is an example cronjob command to automatically delete old backup files in cPanel.

For example, it will delete all tar.gz files from the last 10 days in the /backup folder every night at 00:20.

20 0 * * * find /backup -type f -ctime +4 -name '*.tar.gz' -exec rm -rf {} \;