C has 195 gb free. The DB itself (from earlier backups) is less than 1gb in size. <br><br>Right now my suspicion is on the backup file.  Anyway, we are tryin to restore the data only (minus the log). I will share what happens.<br>
<br>One other thing: The original db was nowhere near 195gb at the time the backup was taken. How is it that now the restore claims to require 195gb?<br><br><br>Anyway, thanx for your responses.<br><br>Point noted: Shrink before backup. Shrink before backup. Shrink before backup. Shrink before backup. ...<br>
<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 2:28 PM, Emmanuel Ochieng <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:emmanuelochieng797@gmail.com">emmanuelochieng797@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
Greetings Lawi,<div><br></div><div>   From your comments, the issue is the free space size on Drive C. I would recommend that if the machine on which you want to do the backup is partitioned into other drives, you could create the Database on the other Drive that has more space by specifying the location. </div>

<div><br></div><div>    As you had also said, one way of avoiding this is to shrink the log files before doing a backup. That would really help a lot.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div></div><div class="h5">On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 1:55 PM, Mr. Lawi <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:mail2lawi@gmail.com" target="_blank">mail2lawi@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>

</div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div><div></div><div class="h5">SQL Server Gurus:<br><br>SQL Server DB Restore gives this error:<br>
<br>System.Data.SqlClient.SqlError: There is insufficient free space on disk volume &#39;C:\&#39; to create the database. The database requires 210068836352 additional free bytes, while only 209935310848 bytes are available. (Microsoft.SqlServer.Smo)<br>


<br>I understand the backup file is 121mb and the thing says it requires 195GB to restore. How 195 gig can be compressed into 121mb is beyond me so lets not go there.<br><br>Question: How can we resolve this?<br><br>Google suggests shrink the log first (which is the main culprit coz its demanding the 195gb). Shida ni its a backup. I dont think its possible to shrink a log file in a backup file (correction welcome)<br>


<br>If the original was available it would be easy to shrink the log file BEFORE taking the backup. <br><br>Am not physically at the site but I can relay the responses you guys give.<br><br>Thanx in advance<br><br><br><br>


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