Is there any way to disable gzipping backups? Because I know I’m going to have to eventually increase the size of my Digital Ocean server, but since that essentially doubles the monthly cost I’m putting it off as long as I can. And after the latest update (when it switched to the new postgres), it…

Any way to disable gzipping backups?

Ed_S (Ed S) October 7, 2025, 4:04pm 3

See previous request/observation:

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