# How big is your Discourse backup?

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**Created:** [2016 年 3 月 21 日午前 6:53 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-big-is-your-discourse-backup/41351 "2016-03-21T06:53:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\
**Post date:** [2016 年 3 月 21 日午前 7:34 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-big-is-your-discourse-backup/41351/2 "2016-03-21T07:34:41Z")

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Make sure you tell backup to exclude downloads, if you want smaller backups.

It really depends how many uploaded images there are. Images are huge, relative to text and db data.

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