DRIVE SPACE DURING BACKUPS

  • Hi All

    i have an issue here...

    One of my drives(disk partition) have only backup files,both full backup files and log backups. (the backups are stored here )

    I get disk space issues very frequently.It reaches upto 80%,90% during backup time.however it isnt at a constant or increasing rate.Two days back i got 93% disk space occupied during backup time and yestdray ,only 81%.The backup files' size keeeps increasing,then how is it that the percentage goes down & up ,and not a linear growth? Can anyone advise me on this? Why does it happen so?and what is the resolution?

    All suggestions are welcome..Thankyou

    Bubbly

  • The log backup files will be of varying sizes.If heavy DML operations is performed or any index rebuild happens the log backup files increases heavily and thus variation is there in your disk space.

  • Thankyou....

  • Sounds like you need more drives. Also, storing backups on the same physical disk as data is a mistake. If it goes, you lose data.

    Make sure you have enough space for backups, and they are on another drive.

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