Backups – necessary or not?

  • Resolved Anonymous User 14808221

    (@anonymized-14808221)


    4 years, 11 months ago

    Hi there!

    We are using your plugin to watermark a bigger database of Images (something around 500k of images at least).

    We do watermark only the largest images (full size) not the thumbnails or smaller sizes.

    As you can imagine, with that many images (and just as many posts), we want to keep server and database as optimised as possible.

    We couldn’t help but notice that the Plugin has created backup Image files in a folder ew-backup.
    There are thousands of backups in there, even thou we did not yet watermark any more than a few images for testing.

    Our questions are:
    1. Does the Plugin create the backups of all images when we even just watermark one single image?
    2. Does the plugin actually change the image, which means we can disable the plugin after watermarking and the watermarks would persist?
    3. Is the backup folder really necessary?
    4. If we where to delete the backup folder, would we also have to delete some backups in the database or is the FTP folder the only instance of backup?

    Do you have any suggestions in regard?
    Thanks

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  • Plugin Support annaszalkiewicz

    (@annaszalkiewicz)

    4 years, 11 months ago

    Hello,

    1. Easy Watermark creates backups for images only while they are being watermarked, so only originals of watermarked images should be in the ew-backup directory.

    2. Yes, disabling or deleting the plugin does not cause image restoration. Watermarked images are still in the uploads directory and ew-backup is not deleted.

    3. There is an option in Easy Watermark’s Settings to turn off the backup, however, if anything goes wrong you would have to upload your images once again as they will not be possible to restore (unless you have other backups you can use).

    4. It’s enough to delete the backup folder (and turn off backup option so there wouldn’t be any further image backups).

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