kaplan71 (12/4/2012)
...If I do a manual increase in size right now, and keep the auto resize turned on a failsafe option, that would provide the timeneeded for the database, as well as let it expand if by some chance it does grow prior to our being able to act on it ourselves...
This is a good plan. manually increasing the size allows you to schedule when that will happen so you can do it durring non-peak utilization times. Here's a good article that talks about some of these concepts. Growing that large you should also look into the "Instant file initialization" capabilities
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/2008.08.database.aspx?pr=blog