Another Backup Question

I am using SQL Server 2000. I have a database that is 230GB that I backup
nightly using the Maintenance Plan. Up until last week it was working fine
and was completing in less than two hours. Last week I applied the monthly
critical updates and rebooted the server. Since then, it now takes 12 hours
to complete. I tried deleting and rebuilding the Maintenance Plan but it
still takes 12 hours. I can't figure what has changed. How long should a
backup of this size take? I thought I'd check here for some suggestions
before I'm forced to go back and uninstall the critical updates.Have you tried eliminating anything with maintenance plans
by create a job with a T-SQL step that does just the backup
of the database?
Are there any errors or warnings in the windows event logs
when the backups are executing?
Have you run Perfmon/System Monitor or created a counter log
to run when the backups run to check for disk, memory, cpu
issues? You could also query the system tables in msdb to
see how long the backup actually took - I wouldn't rely on
what the maintenance plan reports.
-Sue
On Fri, 3 Nov 2006 17:32:27 -0500, "Scott" <someone at
si-intl.com> wrote:

>I am using SQL Server 2000. I have a database that is 230GB that I backup
>nightly using the Maintenance Plan. Up until last week it was working fine
>and was completing in less than two hours. Last week I applied the monthly
>critical updates and rebooted the server. Since then, it now takes 12 hour
s
>to complete. I tried deleting and rebuilding the Maintenance Plan but it
>still takes 12 hours. I can't figure what has changed. How long should a
>backup of this size take? I thought I'd check here for some suggestions
>before I'm forced to go back and uninstall the critical updates.
>