SQL Server 2005 SP3 Express Backups Incredibly Slow

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Published on 2011-03-04T13:59:08Z Indexed on 2011/03/04 15:27 UTC
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I'm attempting to troubleshoot an issue with one of our customers who's using SQL Server 2005 SP3 Express to house their application data. The automatic backups that we perform when upgrading our application are timing out after 30 minutes, and I've been sitting and watching the backup take place in SSMS for about 20 minutes now and it's only gotten to 30%.

The database is only slightly over 1GB, so I'm baffled as to what could be causing this sort of horrible performance. The machine is a 1.87GHz Xeon with 3GB of RAM running Windows Server 2003 R2. While that's hardly a powerful box, this seems ridiculous.

Does anyone have any idea why these backups could be taking so long and, more importantly, how I can do something about it?

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