# DB Maintenance
**URL:** https://forums.suse.com/t/db-maintenance/30732
**Category:** SUSE Multi Linux Manager
**Created:** [January 9, 2018, 7:58pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/db-maintenance/30732 "2018-01-09T19:58:35Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@cisaksen](https://forums.suse.com/u/cisaksen)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2018, 7:58pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/db-maintenance/30732/1 "2018-01-09T19:58:35Z")
I have a question on DB maintenance in suse manager 3.1
I have a location configured were the db is backed up to, but it’s getting a little large. Can I just delete the old backups or it there a job somewhere that will keep only, say 60 days worth ?
Thanks
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### Author:  [@kwk](https://forums.suse.com/u/kwk)
#### Post date: [January 10, 2018, 4:01pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/db-maintenance/30732/2 "2018-01-10T16:01:22Z")
The smdba backup only does single backups. It’s your responsibility to copy these backups away for long-term storage. Having at least one backup, less than a day old, is strongly recommended.
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### Author:  [@kwk](https://forums.suse.com/u/kwk)
#### Post date: [January 10, 2018, 4:02pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/db-maintenance/30732/3 "2018-01-10T16:02:53Z")
Archiving backups to a different machine as soon as a backup is finished is also considered best practice.