Problem

When you do a Cpanel Site Backup, you received this message below, and your site is not backed up.

[ ! ] *************************************************************** [ ! ]
[ ! ] WARNING: Your account is TOO LARGE (Over 50,000 Inodes) for cPanel backups.  Please contact support. [ ! ]
[ ! ] *************************************************************** [ ! ]

block_curr     2231572
block_soft      1023998976
block_hard      1023998976
block_timelimit 0
inode_curr      132827
inode_soft      0
inode_hard      0
inode_timelimit 0
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The above error message appears what you have more than 50,000 inodes, that means more than 50,000 files limit in your web hosting account.

Solution

Try to delete some unnecessary files. Here is what you can delete:

1. Temporary files - Look for the "tmp" folder in your server.
2. Extracted backup files - Sometimes we may have extracted a Cpanel backup to our server. Remove the entire extracted folder because it's a duplicate of your server.