Database Restore using less space

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Database Restore using less space

Carlos Benito

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February 11, 2010 at 4:27 pm

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I want to restore a 400GB (used 25GB unallocated 375gb) database that there is in production into test but I only have 100gb of disk in test. I do not want to shrink the production database, back it up and later reallocate 300gb.
Is there a way to restore allocating less space?
TIA

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Jeffrey Williams SSC Guru Points: 90304 More actions · Answer 1

I am not aware of any native tools that will allow you to do that. However, check out: http://www.hyperbac.com/ which does allow you to do what you are looking for.

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