Title: Archiving Old Posts
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Archiving Old Posts

 *  [christopoff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/christopoff/)
 * (@christopoff)
 * [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/archiving-old-posts/)
 * Can I archive aolder posts in WordPress to save web space? I don’t care if they
   are no longer on the server, I just want to keep them without copy and pasting
   everything into documents. There has to be some way to archive.

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 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/archiving-old-posts/#post-335508)
 * Every post, as well as all the other content (comments, Pages etc.) is stored
   in the database – not in files.
    Every post is “archived” in the moment you’ve
   written it – i.e. is stored in the monthly and category archives. Documents (
   if you mean .doc files) take up 100 times more space than the posts in the database.
 *  Thread Starter [christopoff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/christopoff/)
 * (@christopoff)
 * [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/archiving-old-posts/#post-335510)
 * This is true. But eventually this database is going to top out at which point
   I will have to purchase more webspace. This is what I’m getting at. I want to
   be able to save the database itself, or its content before this happens.
 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/archiving-old-posts/#post-335515)
 * You can always make a backup of the whole database [Backing_Up_Your_Database](http://codex.wordpress.org/Backing_Up_Your_Database)–
   but after that you’ll have to delete the “archived” posts… to make more room,
   or empty the DB and start it again.

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 * [keep](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/keep/)
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 * [save](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/save/)
 * [Saving](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/saving/)

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 * Last activity: [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/archiving-old-posts/#post-335515)
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