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Understood. Many thanks for trying.
RichRock
July 22, 2008 at 8:58 am
The database definitely wasn't shrunk. I can reproduce this problem at will. The backup file and the restored database are always larger than the original.
RichRock
July 22, 2008 at 7:20 am
Restoring to a new database took 8 minutes. The new database is 3GB - 0.7GB bigger than the original! According to the logs "Bypassing recovery for database ... because it...
July 21, 2008 at 8:11 am
No, that's not it. I created a new backup device and selected "Overwrite existing media" - just in case.
RichRock
July 21, 2008 at 7:17 am
Thanks for the fast response. The database isn't subject to large transactions. And the .ldf was 1MB when the backup was created. And - apologies for putting this in "SQL...
July 21, 2008 at 6:59 am
I have a similar problem: .mdf file is 2.3GB and the .bak file is 3.0GB. The log file was truncated before the backup was created and I don't use replication.
I'm...
July 21, 2008 at 6:12 am
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