"David Jurke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Basically, as I understand it, your first group of comments are > about not backing up empty space, as per your example if there is > only 10GB data in a 100GB data file. However, our database is > growing rapidly, and our DBAs tend to allocate smaller tablespace > files more frequently (rather than huge files seldom), so at any > time there’s probably not more than 20 GB of unused space in the > database files, which is less than 10% of our database currently, > and the % will only decrease. So yes there would be a benefit, but > not huge.
presumably the empty space will also compress very well. -- regards, | Redpill _ Kjetil T. Homme | Linpro (_) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
