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Well, two things I found tonight. One, the backup has been starting at 1am instead of 4am like it should. Things will always be a tad sluggish during the backup but few people notice it around 4am.
Also I noticed that some nightly database backups for the last 3 months were being left on the server. That was causing the full backup that runs every night to back up all of those back ups. Simply put my backup file was 33GB instead of 5GB because of all of the stray database backups that weren't being deleted. Trying to backup a 33GB file was causing us to run out of RAM and causing all sorts of server issues. Make sense?
Also I noticed that some nightly database backups for the last 3 months were being left on the server. That was causing the full backup that runs every night to back up all of those back ups. Simply put my backup file was 33GB instead of 5GB because of all of the stray database backups that weren't being deleted. Trying to backup a 33GB file was causing us to run out of RAM and causing all sorts of server issues. Make sense?