Any way to disable gzipping backups?

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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 seems I’ve got to the point where my backup can be made, but then fails gzipping the backup. Ironic.

Since I copy the backup off the server and store it elsewhere after it is created, the gzip doesn’t have any real value (slightly longer transfer time) and I can gzip it after I get it off the server for long term storage. Also, much of the size of the backup are the uploads, and the images and such will already be compressed.

But currently, because of the gzip process, the entire backup fails to operate.

So - is there a way to simply say don’t gzip the backup?

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Have you run

./launcher cleanup

To delete the old database?

Another thing you can do is use block storage to add space.