RE: [firebird-support] TMP space required during restore
Twice the size is an old and possibly still a good guess, I think. It all depends on the number and size of the indices. So to restore an 11GB database we should have 22GB available where TempDirectories points? Disclaimer: This message (including attachments) is confidential and may be privileged. If you have received it by mistake please notify the sender by return e-mail and delete this message from your system. Any unauthorized use or dissemination of this message in whole or in part is strictly prohibited. Please note that e-mails are susceptible to change. RxStrategies, Inc. shall not be liable for the improper or incomplete transmission of the information contained in this communication or for any delay in its receipt or damage to your system. RxStrategies, Inc. does not guarantee that the integrity of this communication has been maintained nor that this communication is free from viruses, interceptions or interference.
Re: [firebird-support] TMP space required during restore
Rick, So to restore an 11GB database we should have 22GB available where TempDirectories points? No. Download our free tool DBInfo (http://ib-aid.com/products/firebird_interbase/monitoring/dbinfo) and open your database there. Look at Index Pages size. If you have the single table with the single index in the database, it will be close to the size you need to have in Temp, otherwise it will be less (during restore indices are being built one by one). Detailed breakdown for each index you can figure out by investigating gstat -r statistics (or look at IBAnalyst to have it visualized): http://www.ib-aid.com/images/ibanalyst_index_size.png Regards, Alexey Kovyazin IBSurgeon (www.ib-aid.com) Disclaimer: This message (including attachments) is confidential and may be privileged. If you have received it by mistake please notify the sender by return e-mail and delete this message from your system. Any unauthorized use or dissemination of this message in whole or in part is strictly prohibited. Please note that e-mails are susceptible to change. RxStrategies, Inc. shall not be liable for the improper or incomplete transmission of the information contained in this communication or for any delay in its receipt or damage to your system. RxStrategies, Inc. does not guarantee that the integrity of this communication has been maintained nor that this communication is free from viruses, interceptions or interference. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [firebird-support] TMP space required during restore
gbak: ERROR: I/O error for file /tmp/fb_sort__M9plMy gbak: ERROR: Error while trying to write to file gbak: ERROR: No space left on device We've started getting this error when restoring an 11GB database. How much space should we estimate for temp files? Twice the size is an old and possibly still a good guess, I think. It all depends on the number and size of the indices. -- With regards, Thomas Steinmaurer (^TS^) Firebird Technology Evangelist http://www.upscene.com/ http://www.firebirdsql.org/en/firebird-foundation/
Re: [firebird-support] TMP space required during restore
Rick Debay wrote: gbak: ERROR: I/O error for file /tmp/fb_sort__M9plMy gbak: ERROR: Error while trying to write to file gbak: ERROR: No space left on device We've started getting this error when restoring an 11GB database. How much space should we estimate for temp files? More. Thomas Steinmaurer t...@iblogmanager.com wrote: Twice the size is an old and possibly still a good guess, I think. It all depends on the number and size of the indices. Each table must be sorted for each index defined. The sort doesn't use the whole record, just the key, the record number, and a small amount of overhead. The sort is done for each index, and no sorts are done in parallel.If you have lots of small tables, you'll need less space than if you have a few very large tables. The amount of space used is determined by the index with the largest key in the largest table and may require considerably more space than the index it eventually creates if sub-sorts have to be merged to disk. Good luck, Ann
