Thanks to all for the comments.

I really hadn't understood (or really thought about it) that the garbage
collection only benefited the database left behind and not the backup
itself - and as I am immediately deleting the database after backup -
there's not much point!!

Having disabled garbage collection my backup was down to about 3 minutes -
from 5.5 hours - I'm very happy with that ;-)

Regards
Paul


""Martijn Tonies"" <m.tonies@...> wrote in message
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> Pauk,
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> > Thanks for that idea - I will give it a try. Makes me wonder what the
> > point of garbage collection on backup is?
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> Most people create a backup "just in case" and not restore it right away.
>
> So taking the trash out once in a while (or during a backup) is not a
> bad thing.
>
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