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Log files are getting too big after a database backup

Written by Charnjit Singh Dharival
  • On our SQL server we received an alert that our diskspace was nearly full, after some looking around we have noticed an unusually large log file for the orchestrate database, it is consuming a lot of the storage we have available which will potentially cause issues.

  • Orchestrate database grows in size after a backup.


Please complete the following steps:-

  1. right-click folder with the database name

  2. select tasks

  3. shrink

  4. files

  5. file type: log

  6. shrink file to: 100 MB, for example.

To prevent the build up in the future it is possible to change the backup methodology. It is possible to change this by doing the following (Note: Please check with your IT company before making this change):

  1. Right click on the database

  2. Select Properties

  3. Choose options

  4. Change the Recovery Model to 'Simple'

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