How much space to back up forum?

[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...

[potentialclient]

But isn't the backed up file zipped up?

[potentialclient]

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

[potentialclient]

eva2000, I have no idea what you are talking about. You must have mistaken me for someone else <wink>

With zlib, I believe you can control the compression level using VB control panel,...

[potentialclient]

If my server will be running VB only, which one would you recommend be enabled?

Thanks for any info.

[potentialclient]

Hi:
I'm thinking of purchasing vBulletin, and am currently working with my web host to set up the server. I want to take advantage of VB's compression utlity, and have a question...
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