Learn to maximize Dropmysite backup storage space

When you purchase Dropmysite for your account, you will be required to designate a certain quantity of backup storage space. If you don’t utilize it wisely, even though it can appear like a lot of storage capacity, it can fill up very rapidly.

How to make the most of your account’s Dropmysite backup storage capacity is covered in this article.

# Backup Scheduling and Retention

A way to maximize the backup storage space is to maintain an efficient backup and retention schedule customization for your site’s particular requirements.

For example, for a blog that you don’t update frequently (just once or twice a week/month), the following settings are sufficient :

• Weekly backup frequency.

• Retain a greater number of backups. Depending on the size of your sites and files.

Otherwise, if you run an online store, then you can use the following settings :

• Daily backup frequency.

• Retain a smaller number of backups.

# Exclude data from backups

You might be using an efficient backup schedule, but in addition to that, you can exclude unnecessary data from your backups. For example, some things don’t need to have backups, like a caching folder and log files. These items consume a very large amount of disk space and are not needed to restore a site.

Most of the time, hosting providers safely exclude the following directories from the Dropmysite backups :

• access-logs

• cache

• .cagefs

• .cpanel

• tmp

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