Help me shrink this database in SQL Server 2005

I archived a ton of records from a database, and it is expected to grow very slowly going forward. So please don't ask if I really need to shrink it or not. Yes...I definitely need to shrink it. I'm thinking it only needs to be 5GB now. But
I don't know how to shrink it without it running for a very long time.
408,092 MB Size
405,195 MB Space Available
I only have about 70 GB spare space on the drive that holds the log files, so I can't have it growing huge while the shrink is running.
Anyone know any tricks to get this done more efficiently?

Are there LOB columns (text/ntext/image, (n)varchar/varbinary(MAX), xml) in the database? In that case the shrink could take a really long time, I believe. In that case it may be faster in terms of clock-time to build a new database and move all data move
over. But it will certainly take more of your time.
Shrinking is an online operation, that is it works with small transactions, so you can 1) interrupt it 2) back up the tranaction log while it's running to keep the disk space in check.
Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, [email protected]

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