How fast is DPM?

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See for yourself in Veritest's Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager Backup/Restore Performance Analysis.

Some key findings, quoted from the report:

  • Data Protection Manager’s “Time-to-Protect” was 1.2x faster than Veritas Backup Exec and 1.5x faster than BrightStor
  • Data Protection Manager’s time to restore a 591 KB file was 117.5x faster than Veritas Backup Exec and 71.5x faster than BrightStor ARCserve.
  • Data Protection Manager’s time to restore a 108 MB file was 11.6x faster than Veritas Backup Exec and 9.1x faster than BrightStor ARCserve.
  • Data Protection Manager’s time to perform an incremental backup was 3.7x faster than Veritas Backup Exec and 1.9x faster than BrightStor ARCserve.

Update: Since I can't do links in a comment, I'm adding my response to Sam's comment to the post:

Sam, for information that can help you determine whether DPM is a suitable solution for your site, check out Anticipating the Effect of DPM Operations on Performance- lots of good tables about transfer rates. Also, you might want to look at Managing DPM Performance on a WAN.

I'm not qualified to speak to product comparisons, so I'm checking with the experts to see what information is available. If you'd like to use the "Contact" link on this page to send me your email address, I'll get back to you on that question.