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Database too big than .bak

tmmutsetse

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April 3, 2018 at 6:36 am

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Good day,
I have a DB which is 850 GB in size and when i take a full backup the backup size is 160 GB.On the DB properties its showing 9GB space available.
Any idea why this big difference in size.
Thanks
T

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tmmutsetse - Tuesday, April 3, 2018 6:36 AM
Good day,
I have a DB which is 850 GB in size and when i take a full backup the backup size is 160 GB.On the DB properties its showing 9GB space available.
Any idea why this big difference in size.
Thanks
T

Thats the free space available in your database which will be used for later growth. The backup size seems fine.

Gail Shaw SSC Guru Points: 1004504 More actions · Answer 2

Is the backup compressed?

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April 3, 2018 at 9:08 am

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@Gila The backup is on the default server setting

tmmutsetse Hall of Fame Points: 3669 More actions · Answer 4

@ VastSQL - You mean its normal 850 GB mdf to 160 GB. bak difference?

Ant-Green SSC Guru Points: 113507 More actions · Answer 5

Whats the output of this code snippet?

select value_in_use from sys.configurations where name = 'backup compression default'

If it's 1 the default setting is to compress and that would correlate with the backup size your seeing.

You could also query msdb.dbo.backupset and check the backup_size vs the compressed_backup_size

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tmmutsetse - Tuesday, April 3, 2018 9:08 AM
@Gila The backup is on the default server setting

If you run the following query:

exec sp_configure 'backup compression default';

What is the "config_value"?
If it's set to 1, then the server by default will try to compress your backups.

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tmmutsetse - Tuesday, April 3, 2018 9:08 AM
@Gila The backup is on the default server setting

And is the server default to compress backups?

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tmmutsetse Hall of Fame Points: 3669 More actions · Answer 8

@Gila the server is ticked to compress backup on server properties.

@antony this code (select value_in_use from sys.configurations where name = 'backup compression default') does not return anything.

Thank you for your willing to help.

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tmmutsetse - Tuesday, April 3, 2018 9:13 AM
@ VastSQL - You mean its normal 850 GB mdf to 160 GB. bak difference?

What kind of data it holds ? Is the data getting loaded by bulk operation?

I have a db with 48GB , 5GB backup with 380 MB freespace

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April 4, 2018 at 5:47 am

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Yes the data is loaded in bulk through RabbitMQ

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tmmutsetse - Wednesday, April 4, 2018 3:17 AM
@Gila the server is ticked to compress backup on server properties.

There you go then. The backup is compressed, and hence is a lot smaller than the data size of the database.
It's not related to how you load the data, it's simply that the backup is being compressed.

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andreas.kreuzberg SSCertifiable Points: 6191 More actions · Answer 12

Hi,
try this query to check your backup-compression-ratio:

SELECT [database_name], [backup_size], [compressed_backup_size], [backup_finish_date], CAST(backup_size/compressed_backup_size AS DECIMAL(16,2)) AS backup_compression_ratio FROM msdb..backupset;

It depends on the data, but the compression ratio could be big.
Kind regards,
Andreas