Size Of Backup Files
Jun 25, 1999
I need to know how big SQL Server 7 backup files are in comparison to the database size. For example if I have a database that is 300 Mb and I do a complete backup to disk with SQL Server 7 will the backup file be about 300 Mb?
Thanks,
Mike
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Sep 22, 2004
Hi!
I'm using SQL Server 2000!
How to know then Data files size and Log files size by Store Procedures or Sql query?
Thanks!
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Feb 24, 2015
I have the need to delete old backup files via TSQL job. Found this solution online:
PushD "
emoteservershareDIFF" &&(
forfiles -m *DIFF*.sqb -d -1 -c "cmd /c del /q @path"
) & PopD
It works remotely if I run it via command prompt. But when I add this to a TSQL job on my remote SQL instance, it runs without deleting anything. What I'm missing?
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Mar 13, 2015
I've written a custom script to delete backup files from location. But unable to modify now to count the number of files are deleted. How to modify the script...
/* Script to delete older than N days backup from a specific directory */
USE [db_admin]
GO
IF OBJECT_ID('usp_DeleteBackup', 'P') IS NOT NULL
DROP PROC usp_DeleteBackup
GO
[Code] .....
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Feb 27, 2007
Currently we use a SQL maintenance plan to do a full backup of all our databases daily (about 40 databases on our production server). As you can imagine, this eats up disk space quickly so currently we manually zip the backup files and/or move them to an archive drive. I considered writing an application to walk through the backup folder structure and zip any .bak file it finds, but I know there are some third party tools out there that will backup/restore a MS SQL database.
I was wondering if any of these also zip the backups once they are created. Any recommendations or suggestions are welcome.
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Nov 3, 2014
I scheduled automatic backup process but its only showing backup of the only one .sql file in the backup folder. Other created .sql files are not backed up. Why is it so?
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Jul 5, 2013
My database .mdf file size is around 6 GB however .ldf file size is 200 GB.
Though I don't know exactly what .ldf file is, I believe maybe that is the reason why some of the stored procedures taking long time to run which were running good before.
Can I delete the .ldf file? If not, can I do something to reduce the file size?
The database (tables) are also replicated to another sql server in another computer.
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Oct 30, 2007
Why is it that lately our full backup (.bak) file size is more than 2x the size of the actual database file size (.mdb)?
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Jul 21, 2004
Hi,
I want to retrive the images from SQL database and store into microsoft access database.
But only images file which is <than 500mb is allowed to retireve.How can i get the images files size if i just store the image file name into my sql database.(there is another folder to store images)
p@ywen.
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Aug 11, 1999
I have a 24gig DB that has 1 data file.
Is it possible to RESTORE the backup to a DB that has 2 files
(1 = 10gig 2 = 14gig).
Does one of the files on the the DB have to be at least 24gig to RESTORE?
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Aug 14, 2006
hi
just wondering if any expert out there can answer my question.
i got a database separate into 3 datafiles in 3 different drives.
i will name it A, B, C.
A datafile size 30G, B datafile size 15G, C datafile size 15G.
and the drive for datafile A is about full. so is there anyway i can more some of data from A datafile to other data file? or since A+B+C =60G can i make it all 20G for each one of them by any command? thanks!!! :)
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Dec 26, 2006
Hi All,
I need to create a brand new db in prod and I was wondering if anybody has any recomendations for initial .mdf, .ndf, and .ldf file sizes.
Thanks.
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Jul 23, 2005
Hi All,I want to shrink a transaction log using :USE MasterBACKUP Log test WITH truncate_onlyUSE testDBCC shrinkfile(test_log, 0)These commands will be executed from a workstation.After shrinking, I want to see the size of thetransaction log and database files. But, I do notknow what command should I use.Could anyone help me ?Thanks in advanceJohn S.*** Sent via Developersdex http://www.developersdex.com ***Don't just participate in USENET...get rewarded for it!
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Apr 12, 2007
Hi everyone,
I want to do sql db backup.But how can I backup db to split backup files? The reason I want to split the backup file is becasue single file size is too big and I want to write to dvd.
any idea or scripts?
cheers
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Apr 20, 2006
I am wondering why deployed packages are so much smaller than built packages. What is removed and why isn't it removed when the packages are built?
I have a package that goes from 3Mb to 1.5Mb
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Feb 13, 2008
My database is of 10 gb, when backup is taken the size of .bak file is less than 10 gb.
Why?
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Apr 15, 2008
I have a log file that is approximately 50 GIG. I backed up just the log and the file size of the .bak is 192 GIG . Why is this? Shouldn't it be closer to the 50 GIG.
Normally I wouldn't let log grow this much. But we are in process of getting new server up and running and don't have backups going yet. They are working on getting that up and running this week.
So I did a log backup to give me back some log space for now but was concerned when I saw the size of the .bak file.
When I view media contents of the backup device it shows one tranaction log back up and size of 192 GIG.
What is up with this. I know in SQL 2000 the log backup files where never this big. they were about the size of the log itself.
Any ideas?
Stacy
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Oct 28, 2014
I would like to add to it the actual file size in mb or gb of each file to the results.
select sd.name,mf.name as logical_name,mf.physical_name,
case
when dm.mirroring_state is null then 'No'
else 'Yes'
end as Mirrored
from sys.sysdatabases sd JOIN
sys.master_files mf on sd.dbid = mf.database_id
join sys.database_mirroring dm on sd.dbid = dm.database_id
The sp_spaceused procedure does a nice job on it's own giving me what I want (only one db though), plus a bonus allocated space column. How can I combine this sp with my other query, or is there a better way to ad this information?
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Apr 26, 2008
Due to SQL's proportional fill algorithm I'd like to have the amount of data in my data files as close to equal as possible.
File sizes before:
dat 482,895 MB 0% free
2dat 436,927 MB 3% free
I made the max size of each file 600,000 MB and added a third file 3dat also 600,000 MB. I rebuilt all the clustered indexes (and nonclustered for good measure) and unfortunately the re-balancing wasn't quite right.
File sizes after:
dat 464,761 MB 77% free
2dat 443,234 MB 73% free
3dat 309,568 MB 51% free
I only have a handful of heap tables that take up <100MB total so they're not the issue. I did do an ONLINE index rebuild. I'm not sure if an offline rebuild would have been better. I will not be able to try and offline for a few weeks though as it's time consuming and I have other tasks I need to run on this test server now.
I did a FULLSCAN rebuild on any column statistics not updated by the index rebuild but that didn't help either.
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Mar 27, 2014
I am on SQL Server 2008 R2. I have a table that contains a field called [Location]. In that field is a UNC path to the physical file on the repository. Is there a way in SQL Server that I can say give me the select sum([Location] UNC file) where criteria? I saw some posts about xp_filesize or xp_GetFileDetails, but I do not see them in master. I am unable to add anything and wondering if there is any native functionality that would allow me to accomplish this!?
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Feb 4, 2004
Hi all,
How can I see what is exact size of SQL server backup file while backup is running. The process is running for more than 2 hours, it is chewing up disk space (it already took about 20G), but the size of backup file is still showing as 0.
Thanks in advance
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Dec 12, 2007
what will be size of backup file(FULL) for 1TB database. Just wanna make sure backup is done right.I did a full backup of 1TB database and backup file came like 507GB. I am using GUI for backup.But it completed 100% but didn't give me the screen'The backup is completed successfully' .it says executing---0%
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Jul 20, 2005
I have a MS SQL 2000 dB that is 3GB, the transaction log is about 2GB.I do a full dB backup every night. My question is, shouldn't thetransaction log shrink down to next to nothing after a full dB backup?D.p8oust7eh+
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Feb 7, 2000
I have a client with no backup of MASTERdb or Help_rev_devices, all I have is a couple of .dmp's of the production data. In order to run DISK REINIT I need to know the size of the database, is there any way of finding out the size of the database device, if all you have to go with is a backup dump file?
I know it won't be pretty.
`Ken
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Jan 8, 2001
I recently started using Differential backups. They are working but are growing in size a lot quicker than I expected.
The backups are growing by 2.5GB every day although the total size of all
transaction backups is under 350MB. I would have imagined that the total transaction log backups would be a good indicator of total database changes and therefore the differential backups would approach this figure.
Please explain!
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Oct 27, 2004
How does backup database command works? I don't see size of database backup file increasing while backup is in progress OR is it locked till the backup is finished.
Thanks.
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Feb 13, 2004
Hi all,
please show me the way how to calculate the size of a database in SQL 2000. Whith this size we have already calculated, how much space need to make a backup file for this database.
thanks.
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Apr 18, 2008
I have installed the sql server management studio express for my express edition of studio 2005 for backup purposes.
I need to automate backing up my database.
I created a backup script and have successfully got sched tasks to backup each night. the problem is it is not overwriting the previous data. My first backup was 1 gig, the next night the file was 2 gig, the next it was 3 and so on.
This is not due to that much data being added to the db.
When I go to restore, I have the option to restore any of the 3 backups. I would like my backup to be a single image of the database at the last backup time. How can I do this?
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Jan 9, 2008
hello guys,
Please bare with my english.
Is there a way to compute for the backup file size of the database.
Example.
DatabaseName
TEST_DB
*in MB
DataSize DataSize_Used DataSize_UnUsed
150.00 81.00 70.00
LogSize LogSize_Used LogSize_UnUsed
30.00 1.00 29.00
When I run a backup for TEST_DB ,
*base on this figure - can we compute the the estimated backup file size for TEST_DB?
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Jun 28, 2006
Has anyone come across a more accurate method than sp_spaceused to estimate the size of a full database backup for SQL Server 2000 ?
I have found this to have too great a variance (even after running updateusage) to rely on any accuracy for it. I have also looked at perhaps using the ALLOCATED Pages indicated in the GAM pages but this also seems to be pretty inaccurate.
I have a number of servers where space can be limited and backups using Maintenance Plans have occasionally failed because they delete the old backups AFTER they do the latest one. I am writing a script which can check the space remaining and adjust the backup accordingly but the variance I have observed so far with sp_spaceused is too great.
Any ideas welcomed.
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Oct 15, 2007
Dear All,
I am using Append to media backup option in 2000 Version. The size of backup is growing. how can I best create the maintenace plan to clear the history or clear the old files in BACKUP (.bak) file but still be able to restore point in time from same physical file. I
Is there any side effect of doing that.
Thanks,
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Oct 14, 2015
Any good starting point to understand for a specific db, how many max VLFs are good to have so that it does not cause long startup or backup times?
Also, I need some calculation so that I can identify a best growth parameter I will setup for each database ?
I'm seeing the below msg in errorlog and curious to know the changes (right sizing/growth) to be done? As of now 100 MB of log file growth value is set (refer: [URL] ....)
Database BizTalkMsgBoxDb has more than 1000 virtual log files which is excessive. Too many virtual log files can cause long startup and backup times. Consider shrinking the log and using a different growth increment to reduce the number of virtual log files.
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Nov 19, 2006
Hi,I am new to SQL express and try to solve the 4GB size limitation.Is there a possibility to create a new database file every time I getto the limit?How can I do that with C#? how can I create new database file everytime it gets full?Can I be connected to two database files at the same time (the full dband the new db)?thanks in advance,oren
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