Title: Reaching server limits
Last modified: February 8, 2022

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# Reaching server limits

 *  Resolved [temporalnaut](https://wordpress.org/support/users/temporalnaut/)
 * (@temporalnaut)
 * [4 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/reaching-server-limits/)
 * Hi, Is it normal that during backup (creating a zip files of 25 MB and sending
   them to Google Drive) the server’s resources are used to its maximum? So at least
   in terms of memory (3072 MB), Storage performance – IOPS (more than 150) and 
   Throughput – I/O (10239 KB/s). The backup size is 6.9GB. [Screenshot](https://imgur.com/a/UMMuJAe).

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 *  Plugin Contributor [bcrodua](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bcrodua/)
 * (@bcrodua)
 * [4 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/reaching-server-limits/#post-15341814)
 * Hi,
 * UpdraftPlus has been designed to use your server resources to create the backup
   files. The amount of resources depends on the number of files and size of the
   backup.
 * Please check this page on how to reduce server resource usage: [https://updraftplus.com/faqs/how-much-resources-does-updraftplus-need/](https://updraftplus.com/faqs/how-much-resources-does-updraftplus-need/)
 * Thanks,
    Bryle
 *  Thread Starter [temporalnaut](https://wordpress.org/support/users/temporalnaut/)
 * (@temporalnaut)
 * [4 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/reaching-server-limits/#post-15355360)
 * Thank you, I will buy the Incremental Backups extension.

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 * Last reply from: [temporalnaut](https://wordpress.org/support/users/temporalnaut/)
 * Last activity: [4 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/reaching-server-limits/#post-15355360)
 * Status: resolved