1) It's Big.
2) Changed/reduced how? Exporting is easy. If your talking about the planned pruning, it'll be the site database providing site content. It'll get exported for backup as usual. Not really sure what you are getting at.
3) The pruned DB? Why? The only way the information in the database would make sence is if it is presented by Xoops. Raw SQL Exports are pretty incoherent to read.