wish you a merry x-mas first.
My problem is that synthetic fulls are still unusable for me. I've a DataDomain 2200 as target and with Veeam v7, synthetic fulls were unusable because of the poor random I/O of DDs. After I upgraded to Veeam v8, I was happy to use the new boost feature and the better performance of Synthetic Fulls, but for me they are still unusable. Synthetic fulls was enabled in my jobs by default so I tried it sometimes, but mostly I had to kill the jobs, because they had runtimes more than 30 hours for ~50%. Yesterday I had some more time to investigate the problem, so I made an Active Full for one of my Jobs: 89 VMs, 2,9TB, needed 9h39min with 1 failed VM. After that, I made an incremental backup with synthetic full enabled today. It is still running and after 3 hours 75% completed. At my company I have to backup ~700 VMs, so if the synthetic fulls need 4-5 hours even after a 1 Day old full backup, how should I be able to run a synthetic full after one week?
So the question is: is it possible to use synthetic fulls with DataDomain as target or is it still completly unusable even with boost? And will the performance be increased with Patch #1?
Thanks in advance & Merry Christmas

Lasr