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Waitopedia is a comprehensive resource of information about SQL Server waits.

The description shown below is the top answer as voted by the Spotlight community.

The charts are based on 2.1 TB of data collected from 4207 instances uploaded by 323 Spotlight users over an 8 week period.

BACKUP

Category: Other
SQL Server versions: 2005, 2008, 2008 R2, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2017

What is BACKUP?

1 Answer

 

Occurs when a task is blocked as part of backup processing. Information from Microsoft®
Very rare

This wait never occurs for most instances

For each of 4207 instances, we ranked BACKUP on how frequent it is compared to all other recent waits. The chart shows the total of all rankings.

Prevalence of BACKUP across the Spotlight Population

For 70 % of hours with this wait, average wait time is less than 22 ms

For each instance, we found all the recent hours when it had a BACKUP wait. We found the average latency for each of those hours.

247 instances contributed data to this chart

Latency Distribution of BACKUP across the Spotlight Population