Recommended processor ??? Or how to speed up the backup process ???
After a while, when the backup grows and grows, there are more and more problems to backup all the work of the day in backup specified times - mostly at night hours - in our case from 21:00 up to 05:00 next day.
What takes the longest time as I noticed so far, ist the initial process of every backup - probably the comparing what is in the backup with what should be backed up. In our case We use weekly schema of 1-st full backup and 2-nd and next incremental backups...
Situation:
DATA --> are stored on NAS-1 unit - unpacked size is 11.5 GB in 141690 files and 2170 folders
Acronis --> runs on well equiped workstation running only for this job
BACKUP --> is made from NAS-1 unit to NAS-2 unit (incremental as described above) - initial start at 00:30 - end at 4:00 = 3.5 hours - the initial full backup is 1.8 GB in size, and the incremental backups are about 2 MB (very small - because at this time there is no work at the files) = only the comparing takes 3.5 hours ???
NETWORK --> 100 Mbit / 1 Gbit - never reach some extreme data transfer values when starting backup task or backing up - also 100 Mbit is quite enough for the transfers
My question:
What is the most time consuming in the backup process ? And how to eliminate that ?
Is the structure of backup hardware the reason of the delay ? I mean when the backup archives are stored on one NAS-2 and the source data are on other NAS-1 ? Or should We buy some special equiped PC - for example Itanium processor ? Or i7 of highest level ? Or is the network the reason for so big time delay ? Or is the Acronis version the reason ?
The most important reason for such data locations are data redundancy and electricity costs. We don't want centralized data storage (high risk of data loss) and also such BIG-RAID servers are very expensive.
Totaly We have about 250 GB to back up daily... You can imagine that backups runs also at the next day and that is not so good for the network traffic and also users are disturbed by the backup process...
Also what is the recommendation ? Please ?
Regards, Robert.

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