Have you tried backing it up to a different disk in the same server? We
used to get a lot of hard drive churning on our test servers from all of
the developers constantly backing up and restoring databases, but then
we gave each of them their own hard drive to work with and it seems to
have helped a lot.

-steve

On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 18:30 +0000, terriertech wrote:

> Hi all, I have sites that are working with a datafile 24 hours/day.
> Backups are run using gbak via a windows scheduled task at 4 am.
>
> Users are complaining that the backup slows down their work to a
> crawl. The GDB file is about 1.5 GB, the GBK file is about 1.4 GB,
> and the backup takes ~10 min. The server has 1 GB of RAM.
>
> Any hints for improving the client speed during backup? I am going to
> try lowering the priority of the gbak script process, but I suspect
> that everything is farmed off to the server process so this won't make
> a difference.
>
> Thanks!
> Justin R
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