Efficient Avamar Backups over WAN and Sizing Links

In this Knowledge Sharing article, Balaji Panchanathan, Jayalakshmi Suresh, and Pravin Ashok Kumar focus on:

• New features in Avamar version 7.1 which improve WAN performance

• How to estimate the backup window required based on the different WAN parameters using open source tools such as netem

• Performance number of Avamar Backup with different WAN parameters (loss/delay bandwidth throttle) with both Data Domain and Avamar Server as the storage target

• Broad recommendations based on these performance numbers

The authors describe how the optimal backup architecture can be determined based on the backup window and performance numbers. This article will be helpful to customers using public/private/hybrid cloud for their backup/recovery needs or those backing up their applications over WAN links.

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