Understanding Storage

  • Resolved simonstj

    (@simonstj)


    6 months, 1 week ago

    Hi there

    I was thinking my backups were being stored on Google drive but I see my hosting storage blew out as well….so does that mean my backups are stored on my hosting AND remote?
    Also, what is a ‘normal’ suggested retention of backup policy – 30 days of daily backups or is that excessive?

    Thanks for your time…

    Simon

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  • Plugin Contributor bcrodua

    (@bcrodua)

    Hi,

    You can enabled the “Delete local backups” option to only keep the backups on your remote storage. You can find this setting in the UpdraftPlus “Settings” tab > Show Expert Settings.

    If you have a busy website or it gets new updates everyday then daily backup is fine.

    Thanks,
    Bryle

    Thread Starter simonstj

    (@simonstj)

    Hi Bryle

    Thanks for the awesome reply.

    If I do daily backups as you suggest, how many days worth of backups do you suggest to retain? 30 days worth? Or more or less?

    Cheers Simon

    Plugin Support vupdraft

    (@vupdraft)

    30 full backups is going to take up quite a lot of storage

    How much media/images are added to the site on a daily basis? If it’s not a lot I would suggest doing your files backup maybe twice a week and doing your DB every day. Your DB will contain all your posts content, comments etc.

    There is no right answer but always keep at least 2 backups.

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