# 'Checkpointing with a task' db file size

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**Category:** Cylc Support\
**Created:** [May 7, 2021, 11:34am UTC](https://cylc.discourse.group/t/checkpointing-with-a-task-db-file-size/330 "2021-05-07T11:34:17Z")\
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Suite DBs do grow without limit, and they store other information besides checkpoints too.

You can configure Cylc 8 to symlink workflow run directories to other locations. (At Cylc 7 that is up to you to do, or if you use Rose with Cylc you can configure _rose suite-run_ to do it.)

> BTW; the checkpointing is very useful.

I wouldn’t come to rely on it as checkpointing has been removed from Cylc 8 for reasons explained in this post: [Proposed removal of scheduler checkpointing capability](https://cylc.discourse.group/t/proposed-removal-of-scheduler-checkpointing-capability/275)

(Cylc 8 has a better way of restarting at earlier points in the graph)

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