# How big is your Discourse backup?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-big-is-your-discourse-backup/41351>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [21 مارس 2016، 6:53ص 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:** [25 أبريل 2016، 6:38م UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-big-is-your-discourse-backup/41351/11 "2016-04-25T18:38:13Z")

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I have to repeat my question:

The default setting is to keep email logs for 1 year (365d). To me that sounds an awful long time, but since Discourse generally comes with sane defaults, I have to ask why would I keep them for so long?

If it consumes significant backup space, I would reduce it to 31 days or something.

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