# When backup fails, delete the useless backup

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/when-backup-fails-delete-the-useless-backup/66953>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [July 27, 2017, 7:33pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/when-backup-fails-delete-the-useless-backup/66953 "2017-07-27T19:33:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2017, 11:58pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/when-backup-fails-delete-the-useless-backup/66953/2 "2017-07-27T23:58:02Z")

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Try a database-only backup, which skips the “combine all the uploaded files into the database archive” step and thus doesn’t need 2x the disk space in the process.

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