co_choa noticed their backup file size decreased from 1.5G to 700M after March 15th. To investigate, co_choa restored a 700MB archive and backed it up again, resulting in a 2.6GB backup file. This discrepancy is puzzling, as the logs for both backups were nearly identical, with the only difference being the storage location: local for the test website and Linode’s object storage for the original website. co_choa also shared storage usage statistics, showing 1.7GB used for uploads. Additionally, co_choa mentioned disabling the “Clean up uploads” option, which may be related to the issue.
As shown in the figure, I found that the size of my backup file dropped from 1.5G to more than 700M after March 15th. I don’t know what happened.
I used another test website I had, restored 700MB of archive, and backed it up again, and the downloaded backup was 2.6GB again. This confused me even more, because the logs of the two backups were almost the same, the only difference was that the test website was stored locally, and the previous website was backed up in Linode’s object storage.
I disabled the “Clean up uploads” option, I don’t know if this is the reason
