Hello all,
I would like to know why it takes between 3-5hrs for VMware Data Recovery to backup a VM with a 40GB .vmdk?
Here is the VMware Data Recovery setup:
3 x ESXi 4 Update 1 hosts
1 x IBM DS3400 Fiber Channel SAN (8-disks RAID-10 array for VMFS)
1 x vCenter 4 (physical server)
1 x Buffalo Linkstation Quad (NAS)
http://www.buffalotech.com/products/network-storage/home-and-small-office/linkstation-quad-ls-qlr5/
using CIFS share with 3.9TB mounted to the VMware Data Recovery VM/backup server
I use a custom backup retention policy to preserve at least "2" most recent backups, as well as the most recent backup from each of the last.
I believe VMware Data Recovery will do INCREMENTAL with De-Duplication, so shouldn't the backup go much quicker since it is incremental or does de-dup slows it down?
Any advice on how I can speed up the backup process will be much appreciated.
Thanks,
Sang