Are you including your Transaction Log file in the original 36GB?
It could be that the other 19Gig is T-Log.
Jeremy Greaves
Fenris SoftwareConsulting, Inc



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> Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 19:07:41 +0000
> Subject: DB takes 55GB+ for backup? The DB size is only 36GB.
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> Has anyone else see this and do you know why?
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> DB takes 55GB+ for backup? The DB size is only 36GB.
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> Thanks 'n Regards,
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