(May 30, 2013 at 5:22 pm)Tiberius Wrote: Edit: Oh yeah, and the last database backup file was 140MB...compressed with the highest compression in 7zip.I don't want to know what size it extracts to...
It may not be that bad. Our accounting DB compresses to about 12:1 and that's just text. I don't know if your backups include images and other data that doesn't compress as well. So it might be in the 1.2GB to 1.6GB range.
Or if my numbers are off, it might be orders of magnitude more.
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