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 Backup is taking longer time for 2 days

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tanu
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Posted - 2012-04-10 : 15:44:51
The database is 38GB and the backup is set for every day at 12:00am.
It is disk backup. Everything was fine but two days it started taking longer time. We have raid 5 in SAN environment. When I check the activity monitor on those two days I have seen that the 'BACKUP DATABASE' process is set to suspended with a huge wait time and the wait type is ASYNC_IO_COMPLETION.

Every day it fininshes in 50 minutes but Monday night and Thursday night it takes 6 hours. I ran the profiler on those days but could not find anything. How do I trouble shoot this problem? Any suggestions?

tkizer
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Posted - 2012-04-10 : 15:59:34
You need to investigate the disks. Run PerfMon and see what's going on.

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tanu
Yak Posting Veteran

57 Posts

Posted - 2012-04-10 : 16:24:20
Sorry, I said it wrong. The main database and os run on RAID 0+1 on 15k RPM SAS disks
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Sachin.Nand

2937 Posts

Posted - 2012-04-11 : 15:10:49
Is there anything in the SQL error logs ?

After Monday and Tuesday even the calendar says W T F ....
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