Backup – background process – Server Timeout errors

Hi there,

I’m running Updraft on quite a large site, around 900Mb. The site gets backed up daily onto Google Drive.

It works great and I don’t have problems with the scheduled backups, but the problem is that when the backup process starts running in the background, it slows down the admin of the site so much, that it’s pretty much unusable for the next couple of hours or so, until the backup process finishes.

When I try to work in the backend, I often get server timeout errors as the admin just can’t deal with the load.

Is there anything I could do about this at all?

Thanks