Predicting backup size of the database

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Predicting backup size of the database

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November 2, 2010 at 3:50 am

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Hi All,
Is there any way to predict the full backup size of a database before actuly taking its backup ?
Any help will be appreciated 🙂
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Sujeet
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It should be close to used space in the data file plus little more (some portion from active log file).

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Grant Fritchey SSC Guru Points: 398890 More actions · Answer 2

Yep, what he said. Generally the size of the data stored will define, in pretty close approximation, the size of the database. You can get the size a number of ways. sp_spaceused is one way. There are tons of others, SMO, PowerShell, for example, check this link.

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Grant Fritchey (11/2/2010)
Yep, what he said. Generally the size of the data stored will define, in pretty close approximation, the size of the database. You can get the size a number of ways. sp_spaceused is one way. There are tons of others, SMO, PowerShell, for example, check this link.

It's actually dead on for me, within 1.4% of the actual backup size using native sql backup without compression.

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Grant Fritchey (11/2/2010)
Yep, what he said. Generally the size of the data stored will define, in pretty close approximation, the size of the database. You can get the size a number of ways. sp_spaceused is one way. There are tons of others, SMO, PowerShell, for example, check this link.
It's actually dead on for me, within 1.4% of the actual backup size using native sql backup without compression.

That sounds like what I would expect. Any significant variation means something is up. It's just not going to be 1:1.

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SkyBVI SSCoach Points: 15128 More actions · Answer 5

@ sujeet

Run this query against your database and see the results. The UsedSpaceMB will give you an idea as how much will be the .bak file too (they should be almost similiar):--

select [FileSizeMB] = convert(numeric(10,2)

, round(a.size/128.,2))

, [UsedSpaceMB] = convert(numeric(10,2)

, round(fileproperty( a.name,'SpaceUsed')/128.,2))

, [UnusedSpaceMB] = convert(numeric(10,2)

, round((a.size-fileproperty( a.name,'SpaceUsed'))/128.,2))

, [DBFileName] = a.name

from sysfiles a

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Sushant

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[font="Times New Roman"] Hi All,

Thanks a lot for your replies. They are really helpful. Appreciate it 🙂

Regards,

Sujeet

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Sujeet Singh