# Database export incongruent size **URL:** \ **Category:** Systems\ **Created:** [July 3, 2024, 4:35am UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/database-export-incongruent-size/34807 "2024-07-03T04:35:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![fraldom73](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/49beb7/32.png) [@fraldom73](https://community.influxdata.com/u/fraldom73)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2024, 4:35am UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/database-export-incongruent-size/34807/1 "2024-07-03T04:35:01Z")
Hello, I would like to export my DB in order to migrate it from influx V1 to V2. my data/influxdb folder contains: 4.1G data 12K meta 55M wal but after the export ```auto influx_inspect export -database db -retention autogen -out /data/exports/influxdb -lponly -datadir /data/influxdb -waldir /data/influxdb/wal ``` in the export folder I have a 61MB file 61M influxdb how is it possible? ---
**Author:** ![Anaisdg](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex023/user_avatar/community.influxdata.com/anaisdg/32/6401_2.png) [@Anaisdg](https://community.influxdata.com/u/Anaisdg)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2024, 8:02pm UTC](https://community.influxdata.com/t/database-export-incongruent-size/34807/2 "2024-07-08T20:02:05Z")
Hello @fraldom73 The [`export`](https://docs.influxdata.com/influxdb/v1/tools/influx_inspect/#export) exports raw data from a shard in InfluxDB line protocol format. InfluxDB V1 uses a highly efficient storage engine that compresses time-series data. When you export the data, its exported in a more readable, less compressed format, (line protocol) which usually should be larger you’re right. But if its not very much data then it could be smaller because the export command might export data in a more efficient format, stripping away metadata and storage overhead that isn’t necessary for the raw data? I’m not sure though this does seem odd.