# Backup Growth rate

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/backup-growth-rate/104756>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [December 20, 2018, 10:14am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/backup-growth-rate/104756 "2018-12-20T10:14:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![me3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9c0ed/32.png) [@me3](https://meta.discourse.org/u/me3)\
**Post date:** [December 20, 2018, 10:14am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/backup-growth-rate/104756/1 "2018-12-20T10:14:32Z")

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I notice on a new (\<1 mth) install of discourse the backup size increasing by a steady 0.2Mb / day.

 ![Annotation%202018-12-20%20161313](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/9/0/903063c57e0fdd920f69c0cd8ed09fcf6a1e67cf.jpeg)

Any thoughts on what grows day by day if new posts are not added?  
Backups are to S3, but I’m wondering if it’s backing up backups.  
I haven’t torn apart the gz’s yet.

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