# Error with internal database auto-backup

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/error-with-internal-database-auto-backup/51200>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** ignition81\
**Created:** [September 21, 2021, 4:42pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/error-with-internal-database-auto-backup/51200 "2021-09-21T16:42:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![Matthew.gaitan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/59ef9b/32.png) [@Matthew.gaitan](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Matthew.gaitan)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2021, 4:50pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/error-with-internal-database-auto-backup/51200/2 "2021-09-21T16:50:04Z")

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We ran into this last week! First, you can turn off your internal database auto-backup to see if that helps:

> [@Turn off auto backup of config.idb](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/turn-off-auto-backup-of-config-idb/47610):
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> Can someone please tell me how we turn this off? We to a full gateway backup and so we don’t need this done automatically several times a day.

Do you have normal backups turned on?

Also, how large is your config.idb file?

We had auto-backup turned off already but were still getting the `internalJson` and `SingleConnectionDatasource` errors frequently. Our error was that the `config.idb` file was far too large (it was 1.5 GB). We ended up having to export our projects and re-import them on top of themselves to clear out unnecessary stuff from the internal database and the size dropped to ~200 MB and haven't had any issues since.

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