One of the General Information manuals suggests as a rule of thumb that your
DB should be 1 to 5% the size of the DASD you are backing up.  Therefore, at
most liberal, 1% of 150 GB is 1.5 GB.

The DB uses approximately 600-800 bytes per file, if I remember correctly.
Thus clients that have a lot of files (and Unix machines of 200,000 files
seem to be common, if not small) it can add up fast.  Additionally, the use
of copy pools will add more to the DB.

Jerry Lawson
jlawson AT thehartford DOT com


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Subject: DB size
Author:  INTERNET.OWNERAD at SNADGATE
Date:    1/22/98 11:44 AM


Hi all,
     I have recently experienced several problems with the database running
out of space. While it true it is the first time I have backed 10 Unix
clients succesfully, shouldn't 1-1 and half gb of database be enough for
almost anything? Our estimate is 150 gb of raw data is being backed up .
     Ann Courchaine