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Magento 2 contains many modules that will not be used and are making it bigger and slower.  Backups and restores are both bigger and slower.  

How to remove unused Magento 2 modules

1. Cron jobs.  Common problems and fixes
2. Magento commands that might save your day
3. Changing Magento modes
4. Server memory check
5. Firewall settings - usually connected to site not available

Benefits from using Elasticsearch include:

• Advanced and quick searches on Magento catalog
• Multi-language support
• Support for stop words and synonyms
• Indexing does not affect customers until reindex is complete 

Go to Stores -> Configuration -> Catalog -> Catalog -> Use Flat Catalog Category

Or

Go to Stores -> Configuration -> Catalog -> Catalog ->  Use Flat Catalog Products

It might be a good idea to decrease Magento size on disk and number of files before doing a backup.  This way your backups will be smaller and faster and the restore will take less time.

Using a command: ( from Magento 2 root directory )

 du -a . | sort -n -r | head -n 20

This post will show you how to delete unused product images.  When deleting a product in Magento, the corresponding product images are not deleted