I just noticed that the snapshots I have taken of Discourse forums hosted on Digital Ocean droplets are over 10GB each. And these are forums that have zero posts or users (I created the forums, took snapshots and then destroyed the droplets). This might be a stupid question, but why are they so lar…

Why are Digital Ocean Discourse snapshots so large?

ZachS May 4, 2020, 8:58pm 6

@michaeld when doing this, do any of the DNS settings need to be updated before restoring?

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