• Specifies the total number of I/O buffers to be used for the restore operation. You can specify any positive integer; however, large numbers of buffers might cause "out of memory" errors because of inadequate virtual address space in the Sqlservr.exe process.

    from the Restore arguments Books online page

    http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms178615.aspx

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