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 Backup vs. Restore time?

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Sarat
Constraint Violating Yak Guru

265 Posts

Posted - 2003-11-18 : 17:12:02
Hi,
Why does a db restore take longer than backup?
Thanks,
Sarat.

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nr
SQLTeam MVY

12543 Posts

Posted - 2003-11-18 : 17:25:10
Restore has to initialise the database first and recover at the end.

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