Restore disk-full message

[monsy]

I'm using Veritas Backup Exec 8.50.
I'm trying to perform a restore of 15Gb redirected to a windows 2000 workstation with a 30Gb available disk space.

When the restore reaches 4.29Gb it gives me a restore failed. The log says there is insuficient disk space.

Thank you

 

[SQLBill]

Are you sure that it is restoring it to the proper drive (the one with 30GB available)?

-SQLBill

 

[monsy]

Yes I'm sure because I can see when the restore creates the folders in the drive.
I'm going to try a windows 98 machine next time.

 

[SQLBill]

One thing it might be doing is: first it reads the 'label' and finds out how much space is needed. It then 'grabs' that space for the file(s). But it still needs space to do the restore in case something goes wrong. So it needs more than the amount actually required for the file(s).

For example: restoring 1 GB. It 'grabs' 1 GB of space and starts the restore, but it doesn't just go to that 1GB of space, it also puts information elsewhere in case the restore fails and it has to rollback the action. I believe it actually takes up almost or close to double the space actually needed by the file(s). I could be wrong, but I believe that's what is happening.

-SQLBill

 

[upennhsbeman]

Make sure there are no kind of disk space limitations set.