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If you want to take advantage of distributing I/O overhead for a large database, select striped files, and select backup locations on different local disks.
When backing up SQL Server 2000 databases, consider using as few striped files as possible since a high number of striped files can significantly degrade performance due to SQL Server memory allocation.
How do you handle errors encountered while writing to the network during a backup?
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