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Estimating Disk Space from .BAK Files

Garry Bargsley runs the numbers:

Today’s post comes from one of those real-world DBA situations where someone hands you a folder full of SQL Server backup files and asks what should be a simple question:

“How much disk space do we need to restore these?”

Simple question.

Not always a simple answer.

Click through for a script that calculates how much disk space you’d need to restore a given set of backups.