Title: Database size discrepency
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Database size discrepency

 *  Resolved [Chris](https://wordpress.org/support/users/forumusr/)
 * (@forumusr)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-size-discrepency/)
 * First time using this plugin to backup, just trying to understand how it works.
 * Once activated it says “Backup my **3 MB **database on the 17th of each month…”
   The backup was only 630kb though. (“Type: Database”)
 * When I added the files inclusion, it said 83mb, but the backup was only 49mb.
 * I don’t understand the differences here…
 * [http://wordpress.org/plugins/backupwordpress/](http://wordpress.org/plugins/backupwordpress/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Tom Willmot](https://wordpress.org/support/users/willmot/)
 * (@willmot)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-size-discrepency/#post-4516199)
 * > When I added the files inclusion, it said 83mb, but the backup was only 49mb.
 * Hey Chris,
 * It’s because the backup is compressed as a zip so it’s smaller than the actual
   size of the Database & Files. It’s common for a database to compress 10X or more
   when zipped up.
 *  Thread Starter [Chris](https://wordpress.org/support/users/forumusr/)
 * (@forumusr)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-size-discrepency/#post-4516207)
 * Thank you Tom that makes sense. Got it.

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