InstantForum.NET v2.9.0SQLServerCentralhttp://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/notifications@sqlservercentral.comTue, 21 May 2013 16:33:37 GMT20http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1393139-1549-1.aspxI found this software back in the summer. Has a 15 day free trial. I installed it for testing and it was nice. You can see if it will do what you are wanting.http://www.foldersizes.com/index.htm(I have no affiliation with the software company.)Fri, 07 Dec 2012 06:58:02 GMTvikingDBAhttp://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1393139-1549-1.aspxWe capture size a different way, however you can use backup_size in backupset, write to a dim/fact table and build a cube off of. Then drop in an excel pivot table to drive a nice chart showing growth over time..Regards,Chrismssqlconsulting.comThu, 06 Dec 2012 14:17:25 GMTChris Beckerhttp://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1393139-1549-1.aspxCouldn't monitoring tools such as SCOM accomplish what you are trying to do?Thu, 06 Dec 2012 07:02:27 GMTJoie Andrewhttp://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1393139-1549-1.aspxYou could just query the backupset table and get the space of the backups that way, unless the drive/folders also store none backup files.Thu, 06 Dec 2012 03:11:07 GMTanthony.greenhttp://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1393139-1549-1.aspxI would like to know the size increase rate of a disk drive that stores database backups.I have overheard from some network people they have a tool to check that, for example to find out in last year- each month what is the size increase of the drive/folder.Anyone knows what the tool is?ThanksWed, 05 Dec 2012 11:10:21 GMTsqlfriends