• If you're rebuilding all your indexes, you're modifying just about the entire database, hence any differential run after that, before the next full backup will be large, because they contain changes since the last full backup.

    How long does index rebuild take and how often are your diff backups that you say backups during the rebuild are large?

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
    SQL In The Wild: Discussions on DB performance with occasional diversions into recoverability

    We walk in the dark places no others will enter
    We stand on the bridge and no one may pass