It will retain as many as you want it to retain, and will automatically delete older backups. This you will set right at the top of the settings page. Also make sure ‘delete local backup’ is checked in expert settings to be sure you don’t fill up your hosting account. This setting you find by scrolling down to almost the bottom of the main settings page and then clicking ‘show expert settings’.
Basically, you can set UpDraft to delete or keep as many backups as you want and in almost any location. This is purely personal preference, although the biggest recommendation is not to keep backups on the same server as your website for reasons I’m sure are obvious 😉
Everything is set as you described, but it’s storing a lot of backups on my Dropbox… I cannot figure why…
Thanks
How many is a lot? It will only store as many as you set it to.
If you have the free version of Updraft, it does not do incremental backups, so each backup is a separate complete full backup of your entire site. The paid version of UDP does incremental backups, in other words, it will only save the changes made since your last backup.
I use Google Drive, it offers 15GB free space, or €2/month for 100GB.
This is just an exemple of yesterday…after deletion of any previous backup
I’m not sure I see a real problem, the backups look complete. I get that too from time to time. It could be the backup was paused because of a hosting/network connection with Dropbox issue, then the one database backup was put separate from the rest of that backup.
Today backups have filled up dropbox…
It seems not overwriting old backups…
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How many backups have you set it to retain? right at the top of the settings tab?
Also scroll down and click on ‘show expert settings’ and make sure the ‘delete local back up’ box is checked, unless you also want to fill up your hosting account.
I don’t know what else to suggest.
