Synthetic Full Backup Times of 48+ Hours Reduced to 6-8 Hours
ExaGrid has integrated the Veeam Data Mover so that backups are written Veeam-to-Veeam versus Veeam-to-CIFS, which provides a 30% increase in backup performance. Since the Veeam Data Mover is not an open standard, it is far more secure than using CIFS and other open market protocols. In addition, because ExaGrid has integrated the Veeam Data Mover, Veeam synthetic fulls can be created six times faster than any other solution. ExaGrid stores the most recent Veeam backups in an undeduplicated form in its Landing Zone and has the Veeam Data Mover running on each ExaGrid appliance and has a processor in each appliance in a scale-out architecture. This combination of Landing Zone, Veeam Data Mover, and scale-out compute provides the fastest Veeam synthetic fulls versus any other solution on the market.
McClain reports that U.S. Legal Support’s backup times are considerably faster using Veeam and the ExaGrid system. The company used to perform a synthetic full backup to its NAS device over a 24- 48 hour period, depending upon the type of data being backed up. With Veeam and the ExaGrid system, the same synthetic full backup jobs now take just six to eight hours. And not only are backup windows reduced, but according to McClain, U.S. Legal also reaps the benefit of reduced network resources consumed during the synthetic full backup job session when using the data mover. In addition, he found that the process of switching from CIFS to the ExaGrid-Veeam Accelerated Data Mover was straightforward.