Home Forums SQL Server 2005 Backups Restore existing database failed due to space issue RE: Restore existing database failed due to space issue

  • June 9, 2013 at 9:09 pm

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    Compassionate (6/9/2013)

    I have executed shrink database option from MSMS.After this below are the stats

    1) LDF - 1024KB

    2) MDF - 154MB

    3) Recovery modle - simple

    Now I have 83GB space to restore the db and the db which I am trying to restore is 73GB(backup files size) . But its still asking for more space now around 95GB.

    Gail is correct especially when it comes to the logfile. That backup file for the logfile might be less than a megabyte but the restore size will be whatever size (could be absolutely huge) the logfile was (empty or not) at the time of the backup.

    --Jeff Moden

    RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
    First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
    ________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

    Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.

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