Is there any reason why daily backups would see a reduction in size?

Thanks for getting back to me, apologies for not including obvious details like version. We’re on v2.3.1 +12 right now (stable channel, I think). 2019-07-03→2019-07-06 could’ve easily covered a period where we updated and some backup logic was changed. Uploads are stored locally (as our forum is pretty tiny as you can see).

Fab idea to look inside the backups. Here’s where the size difference presents itself:

% du -sh forum-190703/uploads/default/* | sort -h | tail -n 6
508K    forum-190703/uploads/default/25
780K    forum-190703/uploads/default/1
1.6M    forum-190703/uploads/default/avatars
2.9M    forum-190703/uploads/default/_optimized
86M     forum-190703/uploads/default/optimized
120M    forum-190703/uploads/default/original
% du -sh forum-190706/uploads/default/* | sort -h | tail -n 6
488K    forum-190706/uploads/default/103
508K    forum-190706/uploads/default/25
776K    forum-190706/uploads/default/1
1.6M    forum-190706/uploads/default/avatars
2.9M    forum-190706/uploads/default/_optimized
120M    forum-190706/uploads/default/original

So it’s the entire optimized directory that disappears. I’m assuming this is all intentional to save on backup size, especially after finding this commit, so all seems good. Thanks. :slight_smile:

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