Slide Deck's for my presentation at the Techcon 2013, held on the 21st of September 2013.

1. Optimizing Backup
Performance
Tips and Tricks

2. What is Backup?
SQL Server Memory

3. Trivia 1

4. Optimizing Read
• SQL Server
Memory

5. Optimizing Read Cont..

6. Optimizing Writes

7. Optimizing Writes contd..

8. Optimizing Write contd..

9. Trivia 1

10. Optimizing Memory
• SQL Server Memory
Size of Buffer = MaxTransferSize
No. of Buffers

11. Optimizing Memory
BACKUP DATABASE [AnotherSingleFileDatabase]
TO DISK= 'C:AnotherSingleFileDatabase.bak'
WITH COMPRESSION, MAXTRANSFERSIZE = 2097152, BUFFERCOUNT = 3000
There is insufficient system
memory in resource pool 'default'
to run this query.
OVER

12. Key Takeaways..
• Multiple Database files on different LUN’s
• Disk formatting with 64K Allocation Unit size
• Multiple backup files
• Compression
• MaxTransferSize
• BufferCount
• Be sensible in choosing your values for BufferCount and MaxTransferSize

13. Trivia 1

15. • Sourabh Agarwal
• Sr. Premier Field Engineer – Microsoft Services
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