{"id":48,"date":"2021-03-29T05:43:49","date_gmt":"2021-03-29T05:43:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imagify.io\/documentation\/?p=48"},"modified":"2024-03-07T06:55:52","modified_gmt":"2024-03-07T06:55:52","slug":"safe-delete-original-images-backup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/imagify.io\/documentation\/safe-delete-original-images-backup\/","title":{"rendered":"Is it safe to delete original images from backup?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The backups are stored in your server in wp-content\/uploads\/backup folder.<\/p>\n<p>In some cases, it can take a lot of your disk space.<\/p>\n<p>Generally speaking, it is safe to delete these images. However, there are few important things to have in mind:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You would not be able to restore optimized images to original<\/li>\n<li>You would not be able to compress images to another compression level<\/li>\n<li>You would not be able to generate Next-Gen version without original image in the backup folder<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It is highly recommended to download these original images before deleting them and keep them on safe location.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The backups are stored in your server in wp-content\/uploads\/backup folder. In some cases, it can take a lot of your disk space. Generally speaking, it is safe to delete these images. However, there are few important things to have in mind: You would not be able to restore optimized images to original You would not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[24,15],"class_list":["post-48","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wordpress-plugin","tag-delete-images","tag-image-optimization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imagify.io\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imagify.io\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imagify.io\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imagify.io\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imagify.io\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/imagify.io\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1013,"href":"https:\/\/imagify.io\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions\/1013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imagify.io\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imagify.io\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imagify.io\/documentation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}