Windows: Estimating space requirements for the database

To estimate space requirements for the database, you can use the maximum number of files that can be in server storage at one time or you can use storage pool capacity.

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Consider using at least 25 GB for the initial database space. Provision file system space appropriately. A database size of 25 GB is adequate for a test environment or a library-manager-only environment. For a production server supporting client workloads, the database size is expected to be larger. If you use random-access disk (DISK) storage pools, more database and log storage space is needed than for sequential-access storage pools.

The maximum size of the IBM Spectrum Protect™ database is 4 TB.

For information about sizing the database in a production environment that is based on the number of files and on storage pool size, see the following topics.