How much data do you have? We backup 40GB in 1 hour and 40+ minutes.

Have you looked at SQLZip

http://www.sqlzip.com/

How are you doing you backups?

-Mike

>Hi All:
> I backup the data on the SQL Server every day. My backup starts at a specific time when the users are loged off. The backup takes 11 hours. There are times when backup would run for more than 4 days. What can I do to shorten the backup time? Is there a more faster and reliable backup software in the market that would backup sql server in a very short period of time? Please advise, this is ver critical for my company's operations.
>Thanks
>MA