Backing up the Database Tables (including images and email) AND the Archive Tables takes at least 15 minutes for my copy of AW. I recently unchecked the box for backing up the Archive Tables, and the time is cut in half. I'm assuming the archived data would not change until your next archiving (which I do about once a year), so no need to back it up every time you run a Database backup, right?

Sue
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