Long times for backup

Hi

I am trying to backup a sql server 2005 database of 12GB....It is residing on a windows 2003 server with pretty good configuration. It is taking extremely long time to do the backup...More than 10 mins elapsed but no backups...

Can some one suggest what the problem might be?

Regards

Imtiaz

What is your disk configuration?

Are you backing up to different disks from you the disks your data and log files reside?

I assume you are using a RAID configuration. How many disks are in your RAID arrays?

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We have 2 physical disks + 1 SAN

C drive -- Program files -- 12GB

D Drive -- not being used (empty) -- 55 GB

H Drive - (SAN- ATA) - 200 GB

Database files reside on H drive. Instance related infor/ master/model/tempdb databases resides on C: drive.

I am just backing upto H drive. Wehn I tried backing upto H: and D: the backup time was cut to 8 minutes totally...

This is really good but can I have further reduction in backup times.

Also, from this backup I am doing a restore of a different database on a different instance. How can I optimise my restore times also...The restore time is pretty much around 10 mins....

Thanks anyway for the reply.

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Without knowing much more about your hardware. To get better performance you need to have more disks in your disk groups/reduce contention in your SAN, increase CPU on your server, increase memory on your server. AS I don't know which one is the bottleneck I can say which one you need to address

You can look at thrid party backup solutions like Redgate SQL Backup and Litespeed from Quest