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I have a log file that is approximately 50 GIG. I backed up just the log and the file size of the .bak is 192 GIG . Why is this? Shouldn't it be closer to the 50 GIG.

Normally I wouldn't let log grow this much. But we are in process of getting new server up and running and don't have backups going yet. They are working on getting that up and running this week.

So I did a log backup to give me back some log space for now but was concerned when I saw the size of the .bak file.

When I view media contents of the backup device it shows one tranaction log back up and size of 192 GIG.

What is up with this. I know in SQL 2000 the log backup files where never this big. they were about the size of the log itself.

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Stacy

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