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Paul555
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Posted - 2008-11-28 : 04:55:52
Hi,
I have a problem with SQL back up using Veritas.
When the back up starts the free space on drive C: drops dramatically from about 13GB to about 600 Mb.
It gets less every time it backs up eventually it will run out of space. when the back up is about a third of the way through the free space jumps back up to about 13 GB again.
I think it is a snap shot of the databases that is causing it but I may be wrong.
Can anyone tell me how to stop this from happening and why it does it?
Thanks.
Paul.

nr
SQLTeam MVY

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Posted - 2008-11-28 : 18:45:39
What do you have on the c drive?
Do you have any of the database files there? I would hope not but maybe you have tempdb?

I doubt if it's a database file issue as that wuldn't give back the space.
More likely is a work file that veritas is using.

Can you configure it to put work files somewhere else?

Should be easy to see what is taking the space while t's happening.

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