We are running DB2 8.2 on RHEL 3, on a Compaq DL380 G3. Tablespaces are on one mirrored disk pair, the backup directory is on another. Disks are standard Compaq 15K, 36GByte, hotswap, scsi connected.
Backups of small databases (backup files c120 Mbytes) take about 7 minutes. There is no real...