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. Information from Microsoft®
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The charts are based on 2.1 TB of data collected from 4207 instances uploaded by 323 Spotlight users over an 8 week period.
BACKUPTHREAD
Category: Other
SQL Server versions: 2005, 2008, 2008 R2, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2017
What is BACKUPTHREAD?
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answered 3348 days ago
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This wait never occurs for most instances
For each of 4207 instances, we ranked BACKUPTHREAD on how frequent it is compared to all other recent waits. The chart shows the total of all rankings.
Prevalence of BACKUPTHREAD across the Spotlight Population
For 82 % of hours with this wait, average wait time is less than 210 ms
For each instance, we found all the recent hours when it had a BACKUPTHREAD wait. We found the average latency for each of those hours.
2684 instances contributed data to this chart