Last few days have been 3.4GB and today’s backup is reporting 3.3GB - is this normal or does it sound like something’s up? I don’t recall any large (or image) threads being deleted..

What do you mean? Set a max image size in your site settings and that is indeed the max image size.

That’s true. That setting will prevent a large image from being uploaded at all. However, I think @AstonJ may be asking that if there is a feature in the system to: Accept an image upload from the user (up to some reasonable upper limit of course) Auto-resize that image to some max size (e.g. 10…

That’s already the case.. if you specify a max allowed, the images can’t be larger than that. I think it is in megapixels, so it’s about dimensions rather than absolute filesize, but the effect is the same. Rule 3 is met. There’s only so big a 128 x 128 image file can be, in bytes :wink:

I can definitely see a real use case for: Hell no… we are not an image storage service, maximal size of every image on the forum is 500K, we will drop fidelity till we get there on all of history… sorry everyone. I get that many forums that tire of giant old backups may may want to go down this …

Right but we have exactly that feature it is just gated on pixel dimensions, not filesize per se. Remember we have to deal with pasted in images too.

Sam, I’ve been thinking about why our backup is so big when we don’t really have that many images uploaded… I think it might be because of the welcome DiscourseBot. From what I remember, it asks users to upload photos to help familiarise them with the upload system. I’m wondering, would it be a goo…

I like this idea. :slight_smile: It might be worth updating one of the welcome bot’s text strings to let people know that, as they’re only testing the feature, their images won’t be stored long-term unless they re-upload them. It could be spun in an encouraging manner; “feel free to pick any image…

Can you run a data-explorer query to give some real world data about how much space DiscourseBot uploads really takes?

I don’t have that plugin installed but can add it :smiley: Could you give me the query you would like me to execute please?

Even though an old topic, since this has been on my table for ages I’ll just post it here as this is the newest topic relevant to this. Pictures might be easier for someone wondering about this in 2021 or something. Discourse forums really are long term archives for me instead of discussion forums f…

Is there any reason why daily backups would see a reduction in size?

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sam (Sam Saffron) March 29, 2019, 12:26am 21

Yes totally, the site setting you are thinking of is include thumbnails in backups which is default off.

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Is there any reason why daily backups would see a reduction in size?

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