
This would take that one person a considerable amount of time. To use a tangible example, think that a single cashier at a store has a long line of customers that they have to check out one at a time. These tasks are then handled concurrently by the server machine's processor. Parallel backups are an example of Task Parallelism, in which a task is broken down into easier-to-handle subtasks to be executed. To assign a definition to the process, a parallel backup is the backing up of multiple files simultaneously across multiple processors or CPU threads. Now, with parallel backups, the server can backup multiple files at once, greatly speeding up the process. Traditionally, FileMaker has used a linear, one-by-one approach to perform backups.
