Title: Are backups compressed?
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Are backups compressed?

 *  [billh65](https://wordpress.org/support/users/billh65/)
 * (@billh65)
 * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/are-backups-compressed/)
 * I installed the plugin and did a trial run of database plus files backup, which
   was listed as 80MB. The backup ran but the result said 35MB. Does this mean that
   the backup is compressed or has it missed some files?
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