Poor backup copy performance

[wendellmoine]

Hello, Our primary backup target is a Data Domain using DDBoost. I have backup copy jobs running to copy to Tegile Intelliflash storage array. The performance is very poor on the backup copy jobs. All running on a 10 GB network. Only getting up to <30 MB/s on the backup copy jobs.

[Rick.Vanover]

Hi Wendell - I have seen similar situations like this. Is it possible to test the same configuration to a different primary backup target (backup job of same contents and a backup copy job of same configuration, sourced from this other backup job)? Data Domain Boost helps primarily on getting data into the appliance. Taking data out of, for a backup copy job for example, incurs some reading of the data to create the VBK on the Intelliflash.

Part of me wants to ask if reversing the configuration is possible, I'm sure you'd get much better performance. That would be something like a backup job with a very few number of restore points (maybe as little as 2) going to the Intelliflash, then a Backup Copy Job for much longer retention on the Data Domain.