Depends if you are running other processes (especially expiration).
Also you havent mentioned your HW configuration.

On Thu, 2002-10-17 at 04:54, Dearman, Richard wrote:
> I haven't done aTSM DB backup in the last few days.  So I started one today
> and it is moving very slow I have a 30GB database and it is only reading at
> about 500KB/s.  At this rate it will take hours to backup.  Before it would
> only take 45minutes.
>
> Is this normal?
>
> Thanks
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