Hello Rick,

Our FBDataGuard, among other things, calculate ## and size of temp
files, raises alerts and store historical logs, in order to track and
predict temp space usage.

Regards,
Alexey Kovyazin
IBSurgeon (www.ib-aid.com)

> gbak: ERROR: I/O error for file "/tmp/fb_sort__M9plMy"
> gbak: ERROR: Error while trying to write to file
> gbak: ERROR: No space left on device
>
> We've started getting this error when restoring an 11GB database. How
> much space should we estimate for temp files?
>
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