How much space to back up forum?

[potentialclient]

Just curious, let's say your VB database is 500 megs. How much additional space is needed to back that up?

[JamesUS]

Backups will take more or less the same amount of space as the database size - so a backup of a 500mb database should take about 500 - 510mb.

[potentialclient]

But isn't the backed up file zipped up?

[George L]

Originally posted by potentialclient
But isn't the backed up file zipped up?

depends on how you made the backup

1. via vB admin backup = uncompressed
2. telnet/shell backup = uncompressed can compress it
3. phpmyadmin backup = uncompressed can compress it

[potentialclient]

Hi eva:
Thanks. I guess however you do it, the initial backup would always be uncompressed.

Upon compression, can you give me a rough idea of, say, how a 500 meg database would slim down to?

[George L]

well for my vB's database it's 725MB and gzipped it's 320MB

[klisis]

Hey,
tell me the command lines for gziping and un-gziping.

Thanka.

Originally posted by eva2000
well for my vB's database it's 725MB and gzipped it's 320MB

[Floris]

Originally posted by klisis
Hey,
tell me the command lines for gziping and un-gziping.

Thanka.

To get help on unix commands, please type

man <command>

i.e. man gzip or man gunzip