# How big is your Discourse backup?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-big-is-your-discourse-backup/41351
**Category:** Support
**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: [April 22, 2016, 7:55pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-big-is-your-discourse-backup/41351/5 "2016-04-22T19:55:19Z")

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Interesting comment - never thought of that and indeed the default value for email logs is 365d. The backup however does not contain any log files, only sql dump and the uploads folder.

- Would altering this setting reduce the size of the .sql?
- Any reason why would I want to log a full year of email activity?

I’ve since moved to S3 stored image files, but never received response to my question regarding the /optimized folder, that still adds significant backup payload.

> [@Generating missing optimized images with S3](https://meta.discourse.org/t/generating-missing-optimized-images-with-s3/35847/5):
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> @uppfinnarn Did you manage to solve this? I just [migrated](https://meta.discourse.org/t/migration-of-system-stored-images-to-s3-after-configuration-change/19605/17) to S3, and indeed the /optimized/ folder is not transferred in the migration. I’d like to get rid of the /optimized/ folder, as it adds significant weight to my daily backup.

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