If you have hosted your web site on a VPS or a dedicated server, you would possibly like to get an update if this current backup disk-space limit exceeds.<\/p>\n
So here is a step by step method to create a disk-space monitoring script that may send you an email if the backup limit exceeds.<\/p>\n
To your server, you must be already having root access.<\/p>\n
Step: 1.<\/strong>\u00a0Login to your server with SSH<\/p>\n Step: 2.<\/strong>\u00a0Run the following commands to create a\u00a0script:<\/p>\n touch \/etc\/cron.daily\/backupDiskCheck.cron Step: 3.<\/strong>\u00a0Now by using a text editor like nano create the following script:<\/p>\n Change the\u00a0user@example.com<\/em>\u00a0address and the\u00a010<\/em>\u00a0threshold below:<\/p>\n Step: 4.<\/strong>\u00a0If you were following along and using nano to edit this file, you can now press Ctrl-O to bring up the write file dialog, and then press Enter to save the changes.<\/p>\n Now once a day your server will check to see if the disk-space usage is over the current level of automatic backups or not.<\/p>\n If the limit exceeds, you will receive an email at the email address you entered in the script.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" If you have hosted your web site on a VPS or a dedicated server, you would possibly like to get an update if this current backup disk-space limit exceeds. So here is a step by step method to create a disk-space monitoring script that may send you an email if the backup limit exceeds. To […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tutorials"],"yoast_head":"\n
\nchmod 755 \/etc\/cron.daily\/backupDiskCheck.cron<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n
\n
\nADMIN=”user@example.com”
\nTHRESHOLD=10
\ndf -h | awk ‘\/\\\/$\/ {print $3,$NF}’ | while read output;
\ndo
\nusedDisk=$(echo $output | awk ‘{print $1}’ | sed ‘s#G##’)
\npartition=$(echo $output | awk ‘{print $2}’)
\nif [ $usedDisk -ge $THRESHOLD ] && [ $partition = “\/” ]
\nthen
\necho “$(date +%d\/\\%h\/%Y” “%T): Your server $(hostname) is OVER the \\
\n$(echo $THRESHOLD)G automatic backup limit, you’re using $(echo $usedDisk)G on \\
\nthe $partition partition.” | mail -s”Alert: Over Automatic Backup limit” $ADMIN
\nfi
\ndone<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n