# How big is your Discourse backup?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-big-is-your-discourse-backup/41351>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [21. März 2016 um 06:53 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-big-is-your-discourse-backup/41351 "2016-03-21T06:53:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![michaeld](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/michaeld/32/1594_2.png) [@michaeld](https://meta.discourse.org/u/michaeld)\
**Post date:** [22. April 2016 um 22:26 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-big-is-your-discourse-backup/41351/9 "2016-04-22T22:26:19Z")

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Looking at some random examples, it seems like `post_timings` takes up 30-50% of the database space…

Maybe it’s a good idea to introduce a ‘minimal backup’ which doesn’t include tables like `post_timings`, `post_search_data` etcetera. Even `posts.cooked` could be regenerated if you’d really want to keep things at a minimum.

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