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adamf83
Level 3
13 years ago

Backup Job Rate more than halved when backing up Hyper-V VM vs Physical Server

Hi, We recently P2Ved one of our fileservers, prior to which we were able to backup with a job rate of 2GB+/min and a total backup runtime of around 15 hours.  Since P2Ving the server, we now onl...
  • teiva-boy's avatar
    13 years ago

    When you go from physical resources, to virtual resources, more likely you lost "horsepower."  

    Either grant it more resources to do the backup, or backup the VHD file itself.  Backing up the VDH is almost faster than a normal file level backup.  The Hyper-V agent being preferred!