Important Info About WP Back Up Plugins-The Eat Your Hosting Like Pacman

[jessyb]

Hi Guys

I might be preaching to the converted here but I discovered something I didn't know and it cost me through my own ignorance if just one of you doesn't fall into that trap my mission will be done. :>)

Did you know that almost all Back-Up Plugins don't overwrite the saves they make so slowly but steadily they are eating up your hosting space?

I was building a big site so didn't think much of it when I went from 10GB -20GB in a few weeks but when a few days later it was 30GB was getting a bit concerned but with thousands of products seemed feasible.

So eventually worried I upgraded to Cloud Server (not actually a bad idea but not for the reason I did initially).

But screw me within a week I had used 50GB of space and this time alarm bells rung WTF I hadn't added anything to the site and it had used 20GB.

Panicking I called my host Siteground who are excellent by the way.

Well to cut a long story short every back up since I started was hosted on my server so I had actually used around 12GB of space and had 38GB of backups if you have noticed your site seem to be taking a lot of space check your WP-Content file it might be housing a very large pile of history (Wayback Machine lol)

Hope this helps someone it cost me from $48 per year to $50 per month which because of my site I would have ended up doing eventually but maybe a few months later had I known.

[Pretzizz]

I use the free version of Duplicator and do manual backups for the couple of sites I have.
While I'm at it I delete the previous backup.
For all that have that backups on autopilot this is useful info.
Thank you.

[feefiefohfum]

Good info. Even for local system backups, do keep an eye out on the usage, else you'll find your free space disappearing faster than trends in vogue on fashion week!

Cheers,
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