I have always backed up through CPanel with no issues. I liked being able to restore immediately and on my own if needed. But due to increased traffic, I have recently had to install W3 Total Cache.
While the performance has been great, now the backup sizes have become way too large and now use up too much bandwidth with each backup. I assume it is most likely the cache file itself that is multiplying the size of the backup. I tried "empty all caches" in the plugin admin panel prior to backing up, but this does not seem to reduce the size of the backup at all. Actually, it did once, but doesn't today.
Any ideas on how to resolve this. I mean, I guess I could rely on Knownhost backups and do my upgrades very early in the morning so that I could have support reinstall the entire container if something goes awry, but I obviously like to be able to do this myself as well without using all of my bandwidth in the process.
I really only need to backup once or twice a week and before upgrades. I am not comfortable doing lots of shell commands yet, so I realize this limits my options....
While the performance has been great, now the backup sizes have become way too large and now use up too much bandwidth with each backup. I assume it is most likely the cache file itself that is multiplying the size of the backup. I tried "empty all caches" in the plugin admin panel prior to backing up, but this does not seem to reduce the size of the backup at all. Actually, it did once, but doesn't today.
Any ideas on how to resolve this. I mean, I guess I could rely on Knownhost backups and do my upgrades very early in the morning so that I could have support reinstall the entire container if something goes awry, but I obviously like to be able to do this myself as well without using all of my bandwidth in the process.
I really only need to backup once or twice a week and before upgrades. I am not comfortable doing lots of shell commands yet, so I realize this limits my options....