# 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: ![karussell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/karussell/32/79339_2.png) [@karussell](https://meta.discourse.org/u/karussell)
#### Post date: [April 22, 2016, 8:12pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-big-is-your-discourse-backup/41351/6 "2016-04-22T20:12:10Z")

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I have also a large backup files (3MB per user!? already compressed) so I was wondering where this comes from. I investigated some tables I stumbled over a huge amount of entries for `email_reject_auto_generated` and `email_reject_empty` in the table. Try:

```plaintext
psql -d discourse
SELECT count(email_type) as count,email_type FROM email_logs GROUP BY email_type;

```

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