# Ability to use compression (gz) with tar backups

**Project:** Sites | **Board:** Planned | **Votes:** 5
**URL:** https://roadmap.ploi.io/projects/2-site-level-requests/items/1090-ability-to-use-compression-gz-with-tar-backups

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For backups, you can choose between tar and zip but the tar doesn't use any compression at this moment. This is an easy change with huge difference in backup size.

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## Comments

**Mike** (2024-09-10T18:54:11+00:00):
I would also request that this be defaulted to on or at least some way to bulk enable it.