Robert Davis (8/23/2012)
Is the SAN shared with other servers? I've experienced issues like this running backups to a shared SAN because everyone else was backing up their databases at the same time and flooding the SAN throughput. I moved the backup time from midnight to 4 AM and the problem disappeared.Is there anything other than backups using the F drive? Databases files? Replication snapshot folder or distribution database files? Backup of other databases running simultaneously? Log backups?
I have been told that this LUN is dedicated to this server. I am sure other servers share the whole SAN though. Most of my backups occur on a different LUN or completely diff SAN I believe. I will confirm this..
nothing else is on this volumues/drive except backups. no replication.
I watched it last night to ensure nothing else was running on that server.
Michael B
Data Architect
MCT, MCITP(SQL DBA 2005/2008),MCTS, MCP,MCDBA