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Troubleshooting BACKUPTHREAD wait type
21 March,2014 by Tom Collins
When running a backup , you’ll notice a BACKUPTHREAD wait type in in the sp_who2 output or sysprocesses. What is the meaning?
According to the msdn site – the backupthread wait type “Occurs when a task is waiting for a backup task to finish. Wait times may be long, from several minutes to several hours. If the task that is being waited on is in an I/O process, this type does not indicate a problem”
In summary – a backup is running and there is a process waiting for it to complete.
You may be thinking about killing the task. But before killing the task consider how far the task has completed in percentage terms. This can guide you to a decision.
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A number of factors could be delaying the activity – such as zeroing out of LDF files during a RESTORE , IO write delays , busy network. Start troubleshooting the delays by comparing against the benchmark timings for the activity and try to understand what other activity is occurring causing the bottleneck.
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Author: Tom Collins (http://www.sqlserver-dba.com)
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