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  • RE: Adding Files to a FileGroup

    Don't you just love those kind? 🙂

    Even as a mother protects with her life
    Her child, her only child,
    So with a boundless heart
    Should one cherish all living beings;

  • RE: Adding Files to a FileGroup

    We figured it out! When you select a path for the file by clicking the ellipsis it gives you a location. We are storing these in the root of the...

    Even as a mother protects with her life
    Her child, her only child,
    So with a boundless heart
    Should one cherish all living beings;

  • RE: Adding Files to a FileGroup

    I just had one of th eSystem Admins who has complete control over the drive/directory and he got the same error when clicking ok. Any idea why this is happening?

    Even as a mother protects with her life
    Her child, her only child,
    So with a boundless heart
    Should one cherish all living beings;

  • RE: Adding Files to a FileGroup

    I am using an account that has elevated permissions but I'm not able to verify that it has permissions on that folder because our RDP is down at the moment...

    Even as a mother protects with her life
    Her child, her only child,
    So with a boundless heart
    Should one cherish all living beings;

  • RE: Adding Files to a FileGroup

    Actually the error is when I am using the Add Files functionality.

    I right click the database and select properties.

    I select 'Files' under the 'Select a page' pane on the properties...

    Even as a mother protects with her life
    Her child, her only child,
    So with a boundless heart
    Should one cherish all living beings;

  • RE: IS Shrink part of Full Backup by default or as an option

    I ran the shrink today on my gynormous SharePOint content database and it completed in about 4 minnutes. woot.

    If I wanted to suspend the shrink operation that I initiated via...

    Even as a mother protects with her life
    Her child, her only child,
    So with a boundless heart
    Should one cherish all living beings;

  • RE: IS Shrink part of Full Backup by default or as an option

    Prolly not...when I look at the General Tab of properties of the DB I see 119.74Mb of Space Available

    The individual ndf files have restricted growth to 102400 Mb and...

    Even as a mother protects with her life
    Her child, her only child,
    So with a boundless heart
    Should one cherish all living beings;

  • RE: IS Shrink part of Full Backup by default or as an option

    And indeed, after comparing screenshots of the mdf/ndf files from before and after there was some shrinkage. I went and ran dbcc shrinkdatabase again and specified 10% freespace. After it...

    Even as a mother protects with her life
    Her child, her only child,
    So with a boundless heart
    Should one cherish all living beings;

  • RE: IS Shrink part of Full Backup by default or as an option

    Thanks Gail. It completed. It took just under one hour using:

    DBCC SHRINKDATABASE ( 5, NOTRUNCATE) . I used NOTRUNCATE to prevent the space from being released to the OS,...

    Even as a mother protects with her life
    Her child, her only child,
    So with a boundless heart
    Should one cherish all living beings;

  • RE: IS Shrink part of Full Backup by default or as an option

    I am working on a backup and not on the production db. The use of a hex editor was suggested as a way to determine if a classified document...

    Even as a mother protects with her life
    Her child, her only child,
    So with a boundless heart
    Should one cherish all living beings;

  • RE: IS Shrink part of Full Backup by default or as an option

    Well, quite some time has passed since I posed my initial questions and got such good feedback from folks. I was able to have a backup of the 800Gb...

    Even as a mother protects with her life
    Her child, her only child,
    So with a boundless heart
    Should one cherish all living beings;

  • RE: restoring an mdf from a 64Bit system to a 32 bit system..it is possible no?

    That's greatnews! Thanks Lowell!

    Even as a mother protects with her life
    Her child, her only child,
    So with a boundless heart
    Should one cherish all living beings;

  • RE: IS Shrink part of Full Backup by default or as an option

    How anyone would be able to read the file is beyond me. The security here is uber restrictive. I think this is a case of making upper management 'feel' more...

    Even as a mother protects with her life
    Her child, her only child,
    So with a boundless heart
    Should one cherish all living beings;

  • RE: IS Shrink part of Full Backup by default or as an option

    Thanks Gila. I will definitely check into that. It is critical that the document be completely unreadable. We have already destroyed our tape backups and taken some other steps...

    Even as a mother protects with her life
    Her child, her only child,
    So with a boundless heart
    Should one cherish all living beings;

  • RE: IS Shrink part of Full Backup by default or as an option

    hi Chris,

    Thanks for sending that query.

    So the used space across 8 files adds up to 814151.4 Mb. The unused Space is at 52.13 Mb.

    Given this situation if I try...

    Even as a mother protects with her life
    Her child, her only child,
    So with a boundless heart
    Should one cherish all living beings;

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