Posted by EggsAckley on 05/26/05 04:20

On Wed, 25 May 2005 23:55:55 GMT, "Dan Guzman"
<guzmanda@nospam-online.sbcglobal.net> wrote:

>A restored database is the same size as the original database so you'll need
>that amount of free space for the restore. You can determine the amount of
>space required with RESTORE FILELISTONLY. For example:
>
>RESTORE FILELISTONLY
>FROM DISK='C:\MyBackupFile.bak'
>
>Note that the backup file may be considerably smaller since unused data
>pages are not backed up.

Dan:

Thanks for your response. RESTORE FILELISTONLY says the data file
needs 1.2 gig but the log file needs 31 gig. How can I restore the
data without the log, or can I?

Thanks, Waz

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