Backups running concurrently with db maintenance

I have a db maintenance task that I think will take many hours (reindexing a
rather large table with several millian rows). Can I run this concurrently
with the backup (full)?
Further to this, is there a list of tasks that can and can't be run at the
same time as a backup?You can run the reindexing concurrently with the database backup, but they
will most likely slow each other down.
There is nothing that you can not run concurrently with a backup, in the
sense that the process will fail. In general though it is not really
advisable to schedule other tasks concurrently with a back up, as you don't
gain a lot in the combined processing time in general (if at all).
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Jacco Schalkwijk
SQL Server MVP
"Branth" <Branth@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I have a db maintenance task that I think will take many hours (reindexing
>a
> rather large table with several millian rows). Can I run this
> concurrently
> with the backup (full)?
> Further to this, is there a list of tasks that can and can't be run at the
> same time as a backup?
>