Title: Maximum Storage Amount?
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Maximum Storage Amount?

 *  Resolved [kokoruz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kokoruz/)
 * (@kokoruz)
 * [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/maximum-storage-amount/)
 * ‘Past this limit older backups will be deleted automatically. This schedule will
   store a maximum of 3 GB of backups’
 * Why do some of my backups allocate 1 gb and other 3 gb? What determines this 
   amount?
 * K.
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/backupwordpress/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/backupwordpress/)

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 *  Plugin Contributor [Paul de Wouters](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pauldewouters/)
 * (@pauldewouters)
 * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/maximum-storage-amount/#post-5370331)
 * We just multiply the total site size by the number of backups to store. So if
   your site is 300Mb, and you set it to keep 10 backups, then it will store 3Gb
   of backups

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