Title: General Backup Question
Last modified: August 10, 2019

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# General Backup Question

 *  Resolved [Engine44](https://wordpress.org/support/users/engine44/)
 * (@engine44)
 * [6 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/general-backup-question/)
 * Today I downloaded the files from GoDaddy for a small site. I used Filezilla.
   I highlighted 7 directories and 21 files. When it finished downloading I was 
   surprised to see there were about 12000 files in about 900 directories. Is this
   a typical number of files and directories for a small site (4 pages)? Thanks.

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 *  Moderator [Steven Stern (sterndata)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sterndata/)
 * (@sterndata)
 * Volunteer Forum Moderator
 * [6 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/general-backup-question/#post-11820161)
 * It depends on the theme(s) and plugins you have installed and whether you do 
   caching and backup the cache, but yeah, 12K files is not atypical. The number
   of files is not really related to your content or number of pages, other than
   the content of wp-content/uploads.
 * Remember that if you’re backing up your site, you need to backup the database,
   too.
 *  Thread Starter [Engine44](https://wordpress.org/support/users/engine44/)
 * (@engine44)
 * [6 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/general-backup-question/#post-11820171)
 * Thanks
    -  This reply was modified 6 years, 9 months ago by [Engine44](https://wordpress.org/support/users/engine44/).

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