# Add option to disable backup compression

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-option-to-disable-backup-compression/37288>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [December 30, 2015, 10:43pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-option-to-disable-backup-compression/37288 "2015-12-30T22:43:36Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 24, 2016, 10:14pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-option-to-disable-backup-compression/37288/22 "2016-05-24T22:14:49Z")

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What is the lion’s share of the backup? I assume uploaded images and so on? Wouldn’t it be easier to specify the backup is database-only, and thus make it a tiny fraction of the overall size?

(Yes, we’d still need some way to back up the images independently, but at least then the urgent need for 100GB+ of space would not be present.)

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