Optimizing Large File Backups

Question

I recently migrated a client from networker tape backups to a our Avamar grid and am looking for a way to speed up the backup process. When backing up the .bak files, about 200GB new data of the 1.4TB total, it takes about 8 hours to process. Is there a way to optimize the rate at which the files are backed up? When networker is performing the full backup, I see it reading the disk at at least 50MB/s as opposed to avamar crawling at ~10MB/s. I would hate for the backups to fail overnight and then have to pick up 2 days worth of data for 16 hours. The major file in play is a new ~190GB bak created daily. we are using version 6.1.101-87

TimQuan · Answer

You can refer to Avamar 6.1 Operational Best Practices to tune performance. https://support.emc.com/docu39168_Avamar_6.1_Operational_Best_Practices.pdf?language=en_US

Druehl1 · Answer

You can use the file_cache (f_cache) option which is describes in the Operational Best Practice Guide.

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