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Backups - how big?

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Richard Berke

I'm curious why my ON1 database backup for about 16,000 images is:  917 MBytes.  I know from reading articles that it doesn't contain my actual images.

When I look at the sum of my sidecar .on1 files, and the few .onphoto files, they together amount to  177 MBytes.  I would expect catalog info and the few albums I have to only contain filespec pointers.  All of those should be small.  Presets that only pertain to settings would also be small.

I went hunting for sizeable contributors to the 840 MBytes difference.

Under c:\programdata\on1\extras 2023\  there is a mix of files which I did import (didn't know their size initially) and some surprising additional files. It seems that the imported extras for Occudrone skies and Sunsets and other skies account for 263 MB on disk.   I didn't import Textures  165 MB,   Borders 203 MB, nor Backgrounds  291.2 MB.  Those together are close to the difference.  The don't appear within the ON1 app under Manage Extras.

To me, standard ON1 elements aren't pertinent to my instance / database.   They'd get re-installed at another PC when ON1 program would be re-installed.  Having a lot more included in the database  extends the time to close down running ON1, and of course extends the time and disk space consumed for backups..  I have an open support case on this.   

Are other users seeing a lot of baggage in their ON1 backups?

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  • Brian Lawson Community moderator

    ON1's backups are just .zip files of your user data at C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Roaming\ON1. 2023 backs up all the folders with 2023 in their names. This includes your Extras folder and the internal edits database. You can add .zip to the end of the .onbackup file and open it up with any zip manager program to inspect its contents and see both the compressed and uncompressed sizes.

    Here is the contents of the last backup I made.

     

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  • Richard Berke

    Brian-  Thanks so much for that info.

    I was able to open the backup with my usual 7Zip application.

    It's immediately clear that the Extras 2023 make up the very largest portion.  That content apparently doesn't compress much at all.  Original size:  686.8 MB and Packed Sise:  627.0 MB.   That's 2/3rd of the total 917 MB backup size.

    Within the Extras 2023, Skies folder is  581.5 MB original and 574.7 MB Packet size.   Within that folder the Autumn Skies is 525.2 MB original and 522.2 MB Packed size.   Among those files are 10 JPG files which are each 20-25 MB.  The other 40 files range between 3-18 MB each.

    As with your folder list, ExploreService is big.  Mine is 1.067 GB original but it's highly compressible:  238.5 MB Packed Size.

    So... if I want a smaller backup size I have to consider how important to me the fancy skies are.  

    Richard

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