How long should a backup take ?

Backups suddenly went from about 20 minutes to 2 hours. W2K Server, 6gb, 4 1.9 P4 processors, SQL 2000 Enterprise Edition, SAN, 52 gb database. Backup is during off hours with little contention.Where are the backups going? Is it a network drive or a local array? You
should also check to be sure there isn't a failed drive in the array.
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Andrew J. Kelly SQL MVP
"Cincy D" <anonymous@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Backups suddenly went from about 20 minutes to 2 hours. W2K Server, 6gb, 4
1.9 P4 processors, SQL 2000 Enterprise Edition, SAN, 52 gb database. Backup
is during off hours with little contention.|||It is going to a SAN.|||You should have the SAN people run diagnostics to ensure its running OK.
You might want to check to be sure they didn't reconfigure the SAN about
that same time. Can you copy a file of that size to the same location with
better results? There isn't much to a full backup that would cause slow
downs other than bandwith issues.
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Andrew J. Kelly SQL MVP
"Cincy D" <anonymous@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> It is going to a SAN.