Special Edition Using Microsoft® SharePoint Portal Server

Before Backing Up the Server

All backup solutions require a certain amount of pre-check activities to occur. Before the backup process begins, you must check that you have sufficient disk space on the target backup source. By calculating the size of the full-text indexes, you can calculate the amount of disk space your backup will consume. Ninety percent of the disk space required for the backup will consist of the Web Storage Space and the indexes.

The SharePoint Portal Server Administration in the Microsoft Management Console provided with Windows 2000 Server provides a view of the full-text index size when you click on the server node. The details pane will provide a list of the workspaces and their index size (see Figure 13.1).

Figure 13.1. ...