# Reduce backup disk space
When sizing the Enhance backup role, it is recommended to allocate double the volume of your live data. This should suffice for a standard 30-day retention period.
If your backup disk is filling up faster than expected, follow these steps to identify and recover space:
- Identify large backups
To view a human readable size for each website's backups, run:
du -hs /backups/*
- Remove partial/failed backups
Any directory starting with wip-* inside the backups folder represents a partial or failed backup.
rm -rf /backups/*/wip-snapshot*
Where /backups is the path to your backup directory.
TIP
If no complete backups exist, review the contents of partial or failed (wip-*) backups before deleting them—they may still contain recoverable data.
- Disable backups for specific sites
It is possible to disable automatic backups on a per website basis. To do this you must be Admin: Websites > ... > Overrides > Disable Website backups