Hi,

> On the surface it looks like there is no problem.  20% free disk space
> should be enough.  The question is "Is the free space contiguous disk
> space?".  That is why when you purge the database, the restore works.
>
> The other point is that may be 20% free disk space is not enough.  I
> thought that the restore process restored the file(s) before purging the
> already existing file(s).  If this is the case, at a point during the
> restore you will have 2 databases exactly the same.

The restore program first purges the target file and then restores it from
the backup media, so you wouldn't have the problem of two databases being
there at the same time.

Another thing you can try out is that you can use volutil and reduce the
transient space on the volumes in question and then re-try restore, so that
you will have more free space.

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cheers,

Nagarajan

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