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That's an insanely long time for such a small amount of data. You either have a very intense load on the system, an extremely small amount of memory, really slow disks, or possibly something is configured wrong. I can't say for sure without a lot more information. I would suggest checking sys.dm_exec_requests while your backup is running to see if it is being blocked by another process and to see what resources it is waiting on. [Here is an article][1] on several things you can do to speed up backups. Look through that and see if anything is applicable to you. [1]: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms190954(v=SQL.105).aspx

Do you have your database and backupfile on the same disk? If not: Since you're running RTM, it might also be a good idea to check if backup issues were fixed in a service pack.

WITH CTE AS ( SELECT session_id , DB_NAME(a.database_id) AS databasename , UPPER(command) AS [operation] , CAST(t.text AS XML) AS sql_text , wait_type , CAST(percent_complete AS NUMERIC(4, 1)) AS percent_complete , start_time , DATEADD(ms, estimated_completion_time, GETDATE()) AS end_time FROM sys.dm_exec_requests a CROSS APPLY sys.dm_exec_sql_text(a.sql_handle) AS t WHERE percent_complete > 0 ) SELECT @@SERVERNAME AS Servername , databasename , [operation] , percent_complete , DATEDIFF(second, GETDATE(), end_time) AS sec_remaining , wait_type , session_id , sql_text , end_time , start_time , DATEDIFF(second, start_time, GETDATE()) sec_running , DATEDIFF(second, start_time, end_time) AS sec_needed FROM CTE ORDER BY sec_remaining;