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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?

1 Answer

 

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®

Very rare

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

Latency Distribution of BACKUPTHREAD across the Spotlight Population