SAP system copy error

Question

Hi Experts,
I am currently facing an issue/error while doing a homogeneous system copy with SAP NW 7.4 (SAP ERP 6.0 Ehp7) servers. Both source and target systems are test/demo servers and system copy procedure needs to be established as a part of implementation.
      An error occurred while processing option SAP Business Suite 7i 2013 Support Release 1 > EHP7 for SAP ERP 6.0 ABAP Support Release 1 > SAP ASE > System Copy > Target System > Standard System > Based on AS ABAP > Database Refresh or Move( Last error reported by the step: Assertion failed: Unable to load database RD3. Refer to trace file sapinst_dev.log for further information.)
Sybase ASE version = 15.7_122
sapinst_dev log file description -
Error description (sapinst_dev log file) –
Execution of the command "isql64 -e -w999 -Usa -SSAP-PROD-TEST:4901 -X" finished with return code 0. Output:
Password:
1> use master
1> load database RD3
2>  from 'F:/Backup_RD1_04042015/rd1_s1.dmp' stripe on 'F:/Backup_RD1_04042015/rd1_s2.dmp' stripe on 'F:/Backup_RD1_04042015/rd1_s3.dmp'
Backup Server session id is: 33. Use this value when executing the 'sp_volchanged' system stored procedure after fulfilling any volume change request from the Backup Server.
Backup Server: 6.28.1.1: Dumpfile name 'RD11509409BE6    ' section number 1 mounted on disk file 'F:/Backup_RD1_04042015/rd1_s3.dmp'
Backup Server: 6.28.1.1: Dumpfile name 'RD11509409BE6    ' section number 1 mounted on disk file 'F:/Backup_RD1_04042015/rd1_s1.dmp'
Backup Server: 6.28.1.1: Dumpfile name 'RD11509409BE6    ' section number 1 mounted on disk file 'F:/Backup_RD1_04042015/rd1_s2.dmp'
Msg 3105, Level 16, State 4:
Server 'RD3', Line 1:
Data on dump will not fit into current database. Need 101376 Mbyte database.
1> online database RD3
Msg 930, Level 14, State 1:
Server 'RD3', Line 1:
Database 'RD3' cannot be opened because either an earlier system termination left LOAD DATABASE incomplete or the database is created with 'for load' option. Load the database or contact a user with System Administrator (SA) role.
No matter how much I try to execute the commands for loading database (LOAD DATABASE & ALTER DATABASE commands), i's not working. I have already added the size mentioned above. Although it still didnt work the size of the DB grew by 99GB (displayed in the incresed size of F: drive in Windows.server 2012 r2 OS level.
Any help leading to closure of this error is highly appreciated. I have attached all necessary screenshots for your kind reference.
Thanks and regards,
M. Nizam

Answer 1

Hi Nizamuddin,
Message text
Data on dump will not fit into current database. Need %d Mbyte database.
Explanation
This error occurs when an attempt is made to load a database dump into a database smaller than the dumped database. You cannot use dump database or load database to shrink a database, regardless of the amount of actual data in the database.
Action
If your goal is to load the database from the dump, you must increase the size of the database being loaded into to at least the configured size of the dumped database. You can do this with either the alter database command or by dropping and re-creating a larger database.
If your goal is to shrink the total size of a database, you cannot use dump and load. You must copy all the data out of the database using bcp, drop the database and re-create a smaller database, then re-create the database structure with scripts, and reload the data with bcp.
extend your current master *database* on the master *device* to a total size of 101376MB(or more) (use  'alter database' command)
alter database master on master = <size in MB>
If there isn't enough room on the master device AND the master device is either a file system device in a file system that has free space or was created on a raw partition that is actually larger than the master device was defined, then you can use the DISK RESIZE command to enlarge the master device
disk resize name = "master", size = <additional space in MB>
Regards,
V Srinivasan