Title: Huge Database Last modified: September 1, 2016 --- # Huge Database * Resolved [lupach](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lupach/) * (@lupach) * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/huge-database-3/) * I have used this in the past and always worked perfectly, but now it’s doing something weird, I am trying to migrate only the database, and it always says there are 64 files with a size of 3 GB, this never happened before, I tried downloading the database with another plugin and it only has like 800 kb. Where are the 3 GB coming from? I checked everything so it wouldn’t migrate the media files * Thank you for your help * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/all-in-one-wp-migration/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/all-in-one-wp-migration/) Viewing 11 replies - 1 through 11 (of 11 total) * Plugin Author [Pim J. Iliev](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pimjitsawang/) * (@pimjitsawang) * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/huge-database-3/#post-7574166) * Hi lupach, * I am sorry for the inconvenience. Do you have backups from other plugins with wp-content and wp-content/uploads that you can delete? * Thread Starter [lupach](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lupach/) * (@lupach) * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/huge-database-3/#post-7574178) * Hi, I have a backup from updraft, I will delete it and get back to you * Plugin Author [Pim J. Iliev](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pimjitsawang/) * (@pimjitsawang) * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/huge-database-3/#post-7574227) * Thank you, lupach. Please keep me posted. * Thread Starter [lupach](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lupach/) * (@lupach) * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/huge-database-3/#post-7574252) * Thank you very much, That did it!, now it’s a regular database size * Keep up the great work, I will keep recomending your plugin * [Chris Cane](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chriscane/) * (@chriscane) * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/huge-database-3/#post-7574263) * I have the same issue and I’m using UPDRAFT backup. Is there a way to exclude the \wp-content\updraft from the migration file. * I mirror lupach’s comment. Keep up the great work! * Plugin Author [Pim J. Iliev](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pimjitsawang/) * (@pimjitsawang) * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/huge-database-3/#post-7574269) * Thank you so much, lupach for the update and for recommending the plugin to others. We really appreciate your support. * Plugin Author [Pim J. Iliev](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pimjitsawang/) * (@pimjitsawang) * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/huge-database-3/#post-7574270) * Hi Chris Cane, * Thank you for your kind words. * You may want to move updraft folder to the root directory or delete some backups that you do not plan to use since our plugin exports everything within your wp- content folder. * [Chris Cane](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chriscane/) * (@chriscane) * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/huge-database-3/#post-7574315) * I can find no way to move the updraft folder out of the wp-content folder other than to do the move before creating the migration file.. * The settings for UpdraftPlus are written as * “Backup directory specified is writable, which is good. This is where UpdraftPlus will write the zip files it creates initially. This directory must be writable by your web server. It is relative to your content directory (which by default is called wp-content). Do not place it inside your uploads or plugins directory, as that will cause recursion (backups of backups of backups of…).” * It would be great if you could add the ability in the Advanced Options to exclude certain folders from the migration. * Perhaps you can consider that for one of your upgrades. * Plugin Author [Pim J. Iliev](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pimjitsawang/) * (@pimjitsawang) * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/huge-database-3/#post-7574341) * Thank you, Chris Cane. We will see what we can do in our next version. * [Chris Cane](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chriscane/) * (@chriscane) * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/huge-database-3/#post-7574342) * Cheers! * I was able to solve the issue by placing the updraft folder at ‘../updraft’ and that did shift it to the root. * It would be nice with your application to allow the user to select or enter any directory and exclude it. * Many thanks * Chris * Plugin Author [Pim J. Iliev](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pimjitsawang/) * (@pimjitsawang) * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/huge-database-3/#post-7574350) * Thank you so much, Chris for the update and suggestions. 🙂 Viewing 11 replies - 1 through 11 (of 11 total) The topic ‘Huge Database’ is closed to new replies. * ![](https://ps.w.org/all-in-one-wp-migration/assets/icon-256x256.png?rev=2458334) * [All-in-One WP Migration and Backup](https://wordpress.org/plugins/all-in-one-wp-migration/) * [Frequently Asked Questions](https://wordpress.org/plugins/all-in-one-wp-migration/#faq) * [Support Threads](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/all-in-one-wp-migration/) * [Active Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/all-in-one-wp-migration/active/) * [Unresolved Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/all-in-one-wp-migration/unresolved/) * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/all-in-one-wp-migration/reviews/) ## Tags * [database](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/database/) * 11 replies * 3 participants * Last reply from: [Pim J. Iliev](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pimjitsawang/) * Last activity: [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/huge-database-3/#post-7574350) * Status: resolved