# How big is your Discourse backup?

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**Created:** [March 21, 2016, 6:53am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-big-is-your-discourse-backup/41351 "2016-03-21T06:53:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![ljpp](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/ljpp/32/96506_2.png) [@ljpp](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ljpp)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2016, 6:53am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-big-is-your-discourse-backup/41351/1 "2016-03-21T06:53:05Z")

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It looks like my community is generating data roughly at a pace of 100MB’s per month, maybe a little more. With linear projection, my backup size in December would be 1.2GB and in December 2026 around 12GB. The images seem to be ~50% of the whole package.

Thats a lot of data. The previous decade (2006-2016) we did with SMF, and the last backup was 175MB zipped, containing 245K posts but very few images. We seem to generate new posts at a much faster rate with Discourse.

- How big is your backup?
- How do you manage them when the size goes up?
- Will I be in trouble after a few years dumping or restoring a backup with the size measured in several gigabytes?

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