Ann,

This is an excert from the ADSM for AIX Admin Guide.  This will help you
get close, bu as with so many things concerning ADSM the real answer is
"it depends,"  your results may vary


"Estimating database or recovery log space requirements"
The size of your ADSM database depends on the number of client files to
be stored and how ADSM manages them. If you can estimate the maximum
number of files that might be in server storage at any time, you can use
the following information to come up with a useful database size
estimate:

Each version of a file that ADSM stores requires about 400 to 600
bytes of database space.
Each cached or copy storage pool copy of a file requires about 100 to
200 bytes of database space.
Overhead could increase the required space up to an additional 25%.

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Ray Pratts
Ray Pratts
Pinnacle Computer Solutions, Houston, Tx
Tel. 281-272-8932    E-mail: pratts AT ibm DOT net

Ann Courchaine wrote:
>
> Hi adsmer's,
>      I have had many problems with correctly sizing the ADSM db. It just
> keeps getting larger & larger and I keep backing it up over & over. Does it
> ever stop growing? Is there some process I need to do like export import?
>
> Ann Courchaine