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Typical initial backup speed (Veeam Repository in use)

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What are people seeing for their initial backup speed to a respository, or anything i suppose. Our Veeam environment is running fine, i have just added a a few desktops/laptops in. I have one that seems to only run the initial backup at around 100Mbps at best. Its a loaded up alieanware, SSD, 1Gb Ethernet, nothing going on the veeam server at the time or the laptop. I would expect to see near at least half the gigabit connection? Throttling is off.
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Hello adrianh,

What type of backup repository are you using for endpoint backups? Thanks.
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Its a windows server repository, its on the same drive/system as the Veeam server.
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Veeam Endpoint Backup is installed in the same site, right? Any VBR throttling rules enabled?
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All in the same site, no throttling.
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Thanks! The last thing I'd check is Load control option of the repository. Check that "Limit combined data rate to" is not somehow influencing your overall backup performance. Thanks
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Nothing enabled there.
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From configuration standpoint all looks good for me then. I assume we can run a test to check the existing performance – try to copy paste the file from the endpoint’s machine to the repository. What is the average throughput? Also can you set up a regular CIFS at the same repository machine and retarget the VEB to this shared folder? Can you see the difference? Thanks!
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Problem found.... Laptop ran Dell update tool a few weeks prior. NIC driver was bad, went to vendor directly and all performance is back up.
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Thanks for letting us know! And very happy to hear that it is solved! Does that mean that bad driver is removed from the Dell catalog and a newer version is available or did you used an older version again?
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We didn't check with Dell and just downloaded the latest package from Killer Networking after realizing the driver that was installed recently had a date of 3 years ago.
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Wow. Just curious what OS was installed on this machine and did you enable the auto updates? I always thought consumer windows OS are updating drivers automatically…
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Dima P. wrote:I always thought consumer windows OS are updating drivers automatically…
From what I remember, this option was not enabled by default. I used to always enable it after reinstalling OS.
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Re: Typical initial backup speed (Veeam Repository in use)

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Windows 10 seems to have the drivers auto update enabled by default, though that does not mean you get the latest possible version :wink:
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