Good practice to "Clear Caches" before you "Backup Database"? Every time I create a database backup, I find myself instinctively clearing the cache first. My gut tells me that any cached data would be unnecessarily included in the export.

Is this helpful, or am I just being OCD?
Is this helpful, or am I just being OCD?


Completely OCD. :)

The database backup class already excludes unnecessary tables like asset indexing data, sessions, template caches, etc. during a backup.

https://github.com/craftcms/cms/tree/master-v2/src/etc/db/DbBackup.php#L46