# Turn off database backups

**URL:** <https://community.localwp.com/t/turn-off-database-backups/25178>\
**Category:** Feature requests\
**Created:** [April 11, 2021, 2:01am UTC](https://community.localwp.com/t/turn-off-database-backups/25178 "2021-04-11T02:01:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![tyssen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e19adc/32.png) [@tyssen](https://community.localwp.com/u/tyssen)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2021, 2:01am UTC](https://community.localwp.com/t/turn-off-database-backups/25178/1 "2021-04-11T02:01:15Z")

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Is it possible to turn off the automatic database backups when you stop a site? I have a site with a large database that I have to stop and start frequently because sometimes pages hang until I restart.

Because the database is large, I have to wait quite a while for the backup to occur before I can start the site again.

It’d be good whether we could choose whether to have the automatic backups occur or not.