# How to reduce database size

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**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [February 27, 2019, 3:44am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-reduce-database-size/110204 "2019-02-27T03:44:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![pfaffman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/pfaffman/32/120154_2.png) [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2019, 4:59am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-reduce-database-size/110204/4 "2019-02-27T04:59:10Z")

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A plugin could destroy the deleted posts. If privacy is the concern then there could be reason to do this. It still assumes that you don’t have backups.

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