# Neo4j-admin copy inconsistent behaviour

**URL:** <https://community.neo4j.com/t/neo4j-admin-copy-inconsistent-behaviour/37365>\
**Category:** Operations\
**Created:** [April 25, 2021, 3:45am UTC](https://community.neo4j.com/t/neo4j-admin-copy-inconsistent-behaviour/37365 "2021-04-25T03:45:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![rmasrani](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex021/user_avatar/community.neo4j.com/rmasrani/32/3149_2.png) [@rmasrani](https://community.neo4j.com/u/rmasrani)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2021, 3:45am UTC](https://community.neo4j.com/t/neo4j-admin-copy-inconsistent-behaviour/37365/1 "2021-04-25T03:45:01Z")

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Dear Community. I am wondering if someone can help explain this behaviour.

(4.2.5, desjtop)

I have a database - profileid0 - which I want to copy to profileid361.

I am using the following command: neo4j-admin copy --from-database profileid0 --to-database profileid361

What I have noticed is that sometimes it is pretty efficient, but not always. This post was prompted by what I am experiencing right now. I ran this copy command - and noticed that it would take 4+ minutes to copy each 5% section. I shut everything down, restarted, and now the exact same command on the same DB is taking around 37 - 40s per 5%.

I don't know how to understand the root cause of this issue. My DB (profile 0) has  
6m nodes  
20m properties  
9.7m relationships  
1.15gb

my question is: how would someone who is much more experienced with Neo4j go about understanding and diagnosing this issue.