Hi, I just signed up yesterday because I needed a temporary solution for hosting until I am able to once again pay for hosting.

I have a question regarding database backups:

I have a database backup for my forum from my hosting account on Godaddy, the backup is a 9 MB .sql file, being closer to 10 MB, my question is how large can a database backup (.sql file) be before PHPMyAdmin or a similar database administration script will reject the backup?

Is there any way to compress the database backup and upload. The compressed backup is only 1 MB as opposed to the rather large uncompressed 10 MB backup.

Thanks if anyone can answer my questions.

Not entirely sure to be honest, I can only assume it is 25mb, as this is the largest amount you can upload per file.

Thanks, you wouldn't happen to know if a database backup can be compressed and uploaded if it's slightly over the limit would you?

I don't think mine is over the limit being only 9 MB, I was asking just in case I ever need to upload a database backup and it happens to be over the limit.