# How much time does the backups usually complete? **URL:** \ **Category:** Backups\ **Created:** [April 3, 2024, 9:59pm UTC](https://forum.hestiacp.com/t/how-much-time-does-the-backups-usually-complete/13686 "2024-04-03T21:59:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mauamolat](https://forum.hestiacp.com/user_avatar/forum.hestiacp.com/mauamolat/32/2658_2.png) [@mauamolat](https://forum.hestiacp.com/u/mauamolat)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2024, 9:59pm UTC](https://forum.hestiacp.com/t/how-much-time-does-the-backups-usually-complete/13686/1 "2024-04-03T21:59:18Z")
How much time does the backups usually complete? I have like a 7 wordpress sites and I set the backup by default in the admin which runs every 5 mins so it can cover all the users right away. And then when it’s done, I’ll reset it to weekly backup. I want to know how much time does hestiacp completes a backup if the site or user is just less than 1G per user. I am using 11 compression of the default compression method, the “z” something, I forgot the name ---
**Author:** ![skribe](https://forum.hestiacp.com/user_avatar/forum.hestiacp.com/skribe/32/6095_2.png) [@skribe](https://forum.hestiacp.com/u/skribe)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2024, 1:12am UTC](https://forum.hestiacp.com/t/how-much-time-does-the-backups-usually-complete/13686/2 "2024-04-04T01:12:02Z")
The backup of my admin account only takes a few seconds, but my user account (that maintains all my web, dns, etc) takes maybe a minute or two. My site is only small, being less than 500M. I run backups daily (as well as hold weekly, and monthly archives too). I would expect backing up every 5mins will be problematic, especially if you have multiple users with Gig amounts of storage. Depending on how paranoid you are (or clumsy your users are), I would think backing-up once or twice per day would be sufficient. skribe ---
**Author:** ![mauamolat](https://forum.hestiacp.com/user_avatar/forum.hestiacp.com/mauamolat/32/2658_2.png) [@mauamolat](https://forum.hestiacp.com/u/mauamolat)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2024, 1:25am UTC](https://forum.hestiacp.com/t/how-much-time-does-the-backups-usually-complete/13686/3 "2024-04-04T01:25:03Z")
Thank you man for the thought. I’ll keep that in mind. God bless you ---
**Author:** ![eris](https://forum.hestiacp.com/user_avatar/forum.hestiacp.com/eris/32/1241_2.png) [@eris](https://forum.hestiacp.com/u/eris)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2024, 11:52am UTC](https://forum.hestiacp.com/t/how-much-time-does-the-backups-usually-complete/13686/4 "2024-04-04T11:52:27Z")
It depends on 3 factors: - Server performance - Client data - In case remote backups Upload / Download speed target / your own server For example: 50GB Client (Large / A lot of video’s) ```auto 2024-04-04 05:14:36 Remote: sftp://xxxxx.your-storagebox.de//happyclient.2024-04-04_05-14-36.tar 2024-04-04 05:14:37 Rotated sftp backup: 2024-03-26_05-14-31 2024-04-04 05:14:39 Uploading happyclient.2024-04-04_05-14-36.tar 2024-04-04 05:41:11 Size: 47359 MB 2024-04-04 05:41:11 Runtime: 4 minutes ``` So 4 minutes for the backup and 30 min upload Example 2: ```auto 2024-04-04 05:42:25 Remote: sftp://xxxx.your-storagebox.de//happyclient2.2024-04-04_05-42-25.tar 2024-04-04 05:42:26 Rotated sftp backup: 2024-03-26_05-42-27 2024-04-04 05:42:27 Uploading happyclient2.2024-04-04_05-42-25.tar 2024-04-04 05:46:47 Size: 8242 MB 2024-04-04 05:46:47 Runtime: 1 minute ``` 8 Gb = 1 min runtime + 4 min to upload Server is an Dedicated server with: Intel(R) Xeon(R) E-2336 CPU @ 2.90GHz Please note I use storage box with Hetzner they are know for not the fastest upload but it doesn’t matter for me… ---
**Author:** ![mauamolat](https://forum.hestiacp.com/user_avatar/forum.hestiacp.com/mauamolat/32/2658_2.png) [@mauamolat](https://forum.hestiacp.com/u/mauamolat)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2024, 9:12pm UTC](https://forum.hestiacp.com/t/how-much-time-does-the-backups-usually-complete/13686/5 "2024-04-04T21:12:01Z")
Thank you, man, for the info. You’re a rock star! ---
**Author:** ![system](https://forum.hestiacp.com/uploads/default/original/1X/d9a5b68bf50ced83e880b56452e592b204761b19.png) [@system](https://forum.hestiacp.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2024, 9:12pm UTC](https://forum.hestiacp.com/t/how-much-time-does-the-backups-usually-complete/13686/6 "2024-05-04T21:12:22Z")
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