Agents and Components Requiring Additional Disk Space

If your environment contains any of the following agents or components, your job results directory may require more disk space than what is calculated in Job Results Directory Disk Space Calculation.

If multiple jobs are running at the same time, the job results directory must have enough space for all concurrent jobs.

Agent or Component	Feature or Option	Disk Space Requirements for the Job Results Directory	Notes	Additional Information
Microsoft SharePoint	All SharePoint agent backup jobs and all SharePoint agent restore jobs	Variable: As large as the backed up and restored data		System Requirements - SharePoint Server iDataAgent
Microsoft SQL Server	Restoring from a secondary copy with the combined stream option	Variable: As large as the restored data	You can configure a different location for the staging folder.	Configuring Data Streams for Backups Using the SQL Server Agent
	Instant Application Recovery	Variable: 15% of the size of the source database, and it can be as large as the source database.		SQL Recovery Point
	Backing up Analysis Services databases	Variable: As large as the backed up data	You can configure a different location for the staging folder.	Backing Up SQL Databases
	Restoring an on-premise database to the Azure cloud	Variable: The staging path must have enough free disk space as large as the backed up data and additional free space to stage the Azure BACPAC file.	You can configure a different location for the staging folder.	Restoring SQL Databases from an On-Premises SQL Server to an Azure Cloud
Microsoft Windows File System	Block-Level Backup: Live Browse	Variable: 10% of the restore data, and it can be as large as the restore data	You can configure a different location for the staging folder.	Block-Level Restores
MySQL	Restore from backup copy	Variable: 10% of the restore data, and it can be as large as the restore data		Restoring a MySQL Instance to the Same Host
	Table level restore	Log restore: Staging path should have sufficient space for total size of logs to be restored Variable for recall data: 10% of the restore data, and it can be as large as the restore data	Logs will be staged to staging path and recall data will use job results directory	Restoring MySQL Tables to the Same Host
	Instant Application Recovery	Log restore: Clone working directory should have sufficient space for total size of logs to be restored Variable for recall data: 10% of the restore data, and it can be as large as the restore data	Logs will be staged to clone working directory and recall data will use job results directory	Instant Application Recovery for MySQL Server
Linux/UNIX File System	Block-Level Backup: Live Browse	Variable: 10% of the restore data, and it can be as large as the restore data	You can configure a different location for the staging folder.	Configuring Live Browse on AIX, Linux, and Solaris
Oracle	Instant Application Recovery	Variable: 15% of the size of the source database		Instant Application Recovery
PostgreSQL	Restore from backup copy	Variable: 10% of the restore data, and it can be as large as the restore data		Restoring a PostgreSQL Instance to the Same Host
	Table level restore	Log restore: Staging path should have sufficient space for total size of logs to be restored Variable for recall data: 10% of the restore data, and it can be as large as the restore data	Logs will be staged to staging path and recall data will use job results directory	Restoring PostgreSQL Tables to the Same Host
	Instant Application Recovery	Log restore: Clone working directory should have sufficient space for total size of logs to be restored Variable for recall data: 10% of the restore data, and it can be as large as the restore data	Logs will be staged to clone working directory and recall data will use job results directory	Instant Application Recovery for PostgreSQL Server
Virtualization (select hypervisors)	Block-Level Live Browse	Minimum of 20 GB For optimal performance, the free space on the pseudomount cache should be at least 10% of the overall disk size for the cache plus the size of the data to be restored.		Live Browse, Block-Level Browse, and Metadata Collection
Virtualization (Amazon)	Conversion to Amazon Full VM restore using proxy that is not on Amazon	Variable: As large as the size of the largest virtual machine being converted to Amazon		Converting Virtual Machines to Amazon Restoring Full Instances
Virtualization (VMware)	Collect File Details	Variable: At least 2 percent of the total amount of data being backed up		Live Browse, Block-Level Browse, and Metadata Collection
Virtualization (VMware)	Live Recovery of VMs	The larger of the following: 20 GB Variable: 15% of the VM size (the sum of the sizes of all VMDKs for the VM)	You can configure a different location for the 3DFS cache.	Restoring Virtual Machines with Live Recovery
Virtualization (VMware)	Live Mount	The larger of the following: 20 GB Variable: 15% of the VM size (the sum of the sizes of all VMDKs for the VM) plus the expected size of writes to VMDKs during the live mount operation	You can configure a different location for the 3DFS cache.	Running a Virtual Machine Using Live Mount
Web Server	Web Console: Downloading, uploading, and previewing files	Variable: As large as the data being downloaded, uploaded, and previewed		Downloading and Uploading Files in the Web Console
Workflow	FILE_PICKER control type	Variable: As large as the files users upload to send into the workflow		FILE_PICKER Control Type