Veeam Agent for Windows and EMC Data Domain Boost Protocol Support

[stormman]

Hi,
I'm trying to find a clarifying statement in the Veeam documentation or KB articles to confirm if using VAW to backup into an EMC Data domain Boost enabled repository is supported and takes advantage of the Boost protocol ?

This is using a managed agent from Veeam B&R

Unfortunately I can't see anything in the documentation which definitively supports this, I have set this up and it appears to works fine and the backups transfer rate is around 30% - 40% quicker than when I use a CIFS share on the same repository so I am assuming it is taking advantage of this protocol.

Would anyone be kind to confirm if VAW can take advantage of the Data domain Boost protocol and this is a fully supported method when using VAW ?

[HannesK]

Hello,
yes it works with VAW.

https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backu ... l?ver=95u4 - last sentence says that it only does not work with Linux Agent

Best regards,
Hannes

[stormman]

Excellent, that's good news,
Thank you for confirming so quickly Hannes

[PKaufmann]

Hi,

does this require any special configuration?

I have the agent on a hardware machine and backup target is DataDomain Veeam repository,
but ddboost is not used.
traffic is send to the datadomain through the backup server

[HannesK]

Hello,
the traffic goes through the gateway server. If that is your backup server (just a guess), then the behavior sounds correct and you are using ddboost.

https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backu ... er=110#emc

Best regards,
Hannes

[PKaufmann]

Ah ok, yes, it's the gateway server for the repository.

Sometimes it is super slow and I don't know why...
8 MB / sec but no other network or disk load ...

[HannesK]

hard to say why it's that slow... normally backup speed it okay to datadomain. only restore speed is... well... it's speed of an inline dedupe appliance

how much speed do you get for VM backup?

if that is fast, then I would assume something on the network. Or RAM / CPU of the VBR server?

[PKaufmann]

Normal VM jobs are between 250 MB/s and 500 MB/s with bottleneck network
RAM / CPU is pretty much room for a second installation ^^
Other Agent Jobs are faster, too - only one job that gives me a headache..

Same Windows Agent, 3 Jobs, only one is super super slow.
Source files are on the same disk for 2 of the jobs.

[HannesK]

Same Windows Agent, 3 Jobs, only one is super super slow.
Source files are on the same disk for 2 of the jobs.

I don't have details about your setup, but normally "entire computer" = 1 job per machine is the easiest way to have a relaxed backup admin life

Sounds like you are doing file-based backup? Then it depends on the amount of files etc... block-based backup is faster.

[PKaufmann]

Yeah, we cannot use entire computer on this machine..
We have 1 volume level job for the OS which is fast, and two file level job.
About 120 files in the folder of this file-job, the other file-job has only one file.
There is no bottleneck shown (N/A) , while job is running it shows "Detecting" ..

The Throughput window looks also strange, usually we have a steady data stream, but with this job,
it is like spikes only.. Read / transfer speed = 0 for a couple of minutes, then a spike with 460 MB/s read / transfer speed and 0 again..

opening a support case might be the best idea