[russellw]

Pleased to say it had no service impact and the full ~200 Gb back-up took about 56 minutes.

It did increase utilisation of both CPU and RAM but not to levels that were of any concern.

The new schedule for daily backups will be:

03:00 Database backup (~5-6 minutes) and it does severely impact service because the tables are locked while it is being done to stop changes being made.

03:15 Database backup is moved to a location where the backup will find it. No impact.

03:20 Database backup is compressed. No impact.

04:00 Server backup is performed of changed files only. Expected to take only a few minutes and have no service impact.

Regards
Russ