Restore failed due to insufficiant space

  • HI

    Restore failed due to insufficiant space on drive, Actually database TestA existing on server A,

    Need to restore TestA From another copy from Server B , Restore copy size is 5 GB.available free

    space on restore destination drive is 7 gb, when i try to restore it gives error need free space on drive

    would be 16 GB , why that much space is needed to restore operation , any suggestions are good.

  • Back up copy actually compressed by four times to original size . so that is the reason i could not restore.on 7 gb space

  • the .bak file is generally compressed one,

    the original size of database is the .mdf size..

    so the .bak file size would be 5 gb

    but the .mdf file would be 15 or 20gb which

    would be less space for that drive

    Regards
    Sushant Kumar
    MCTS,MCP

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