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Hm, I just saw, that my backup files from the last year are 5 times bigger than the actual backup files?
I made no big changes to my site. Is there a compression feature or something else I'm not aware of?

Any ideas why the size of my actual backup files is smaller?

Matthias
gpaed.de
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Have you maybe cleaned out the ClickTrack tables or something? I'm not aware of any new compression with the backups - but I could be wrong =)

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Andy wrote:
Have you maybe cleaned out the ClickTrack tables or something? I'm not aware of any new compression with the backups - but I could be wrong =)

Cheers

Yes, I few month ago I cleaned the ClickTrack tables. But I don't know if that's the reason.
When I look into phpadmin the glinks tables have a size of 58,6 MiB
But the glinks backup has only a size of 17812 KB ?

Matthias
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Do you share that DB with any other stuff? (cos GLinks obviously only backs up the GLinks tables :))

If not - it could be that GT have added a compression algorythmn or something (I havn't really looked at the backup cos, as I very rarely use it - I tend to use mysqldump to make the backups =))

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Andy wrote:
Do you share that DB with any other stuff? (cos GLinks obviously only backs up the GLinks tables :))

If not - it could be that GT have added a compression algorythmn or something (I havn't really looked at the backup cos, as I very rarely use it - I tend to use mysqldump to make the backups =))

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No the database is only for glinks tables! I'm using mysqldump, too, but just wanted to know why there is a difference.
I don't like surprises when I need a backup Whistle

Matthias
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Maybe email Adrian at GT, and see if he can shed some light? :) (and post it here, in case anyone else has the same question)

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