Oh, my profound apologies!!! I just went by the avatar...big mistake!!

Thank you Mrs. Gail for your help.

Thank you very much gentlemen.

Thanks again for all of your input guys!

Assuming that the log growth is normal, that the databases need to be in FULL recovery mode so that the backup chain is...

So the index rebuild job ran about 40 minutes ago. I verified that on the 56GB database it pushed the logs to 10GB. On another database, that is...

There are a ton of SSIS packages that pull in data from various sources, some from mainframe output files, some from ftp sites, etc. They are bulk loaded, as...

I will change the index rebuild tomorrow. But I doubt that the reindex/rebuild creates a lot of logs, since one of our databases that is 56GB and 80 indexes...

Thanks again.

This is a production system that is supporting several departments within our company. And yes, we need to be able to recover all the data, or...

Thanks for your response.

I don't believe that the logs are growing much. There are about a dozen databases, the largest log file gets to be around 17GB....