New cPanel feature – Backup User Selection

cPanel & WHM is the Duo that you can use to set up your own hosting business in no time. And this duo is compelling as you can create and manage user accounts on your server, Manage to bill and limit usage as per the user’s requirement. In cPanel & WHM version 74, some new features are useful to system administrators. One of the highlights is “Backup user selection” that you can use to manage backups for your customers.

In cPanel & WHM version 74, the feature backup user selection has updated with a new look and feel. Backup user selection has a new separate section with new toggles and a new Account Actions menu button where you can enable or disable all the accounts by one click.

Backup User Selection Interface

So the main advantage of the interface is that it allows you to exclude or include user accounts from your scheduled backups. In this documentation, we are going to discuss the backup user selection feature.

1) Log in to the WHM.

2) Go to the “Backup” session.

3) Select the Option “Backup User Selection”.

4) From the page, go to the “Account Actions” section where you can enable or disable the backups for all the cPanel users in one click. If you want to enable the backup option for all the accounts on the cPanel, choose the option “Enable all backups”.

5) Or If you want to disable the backup option for all the accounts on the cPanel, choose the option “Disable all Backups”.

6)  You can also choose to enable/disable backups for specific users.

When you configure a backup in the “Backup Configuration” on WHM, your backups include user account information by default. You can change this option by using this new feature.