Title: Database file location?
Last modified: June 12, 2018

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# Database file location?

 *  [toddcav](https://wordpress.org/support/users/toddcav/)
 * (@toddcav)
 * [7 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-file-location-2/)
 * When downloading a SQL file backup of the database, is that file created and 
   stored somewhere on the server or is it linking to the original database? Just
   wondering if there is a database backup I should be deleting from the server 
   somewhere. Thanks!

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