Backup Runs too long

  • My backups are running 5-6 hours on SQL2000. I'm sure they only used to take 1 hour or so. On another server, backing up the same type of database (both about 50 gig), the backup only takes 45 min - 1 hour. What can I look at to see why it's taking so long ?

  • Disk io and cpu time to start - is the server maxed out when you backup? Could also be that you have more data, that it's more fragmented (rebuilding indexes regularly?), or that you have jobs running/users accessing more than used to during the backup period.

    Andy

    http://www.sqlservercentral.com/columnists/awarren/

  • If you have multiple processors you can speed up your backup by adding more backup files.

  • I am also having problems that backups running longer on one of my server (SQL 6.5), whch has 2 processors. Could you please let me know how to add more backup files?

    To speed up the process, I have split the job and created another job to have the indexes rebuilt.

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