The engineer configured Veeam Backup & Replications 3 years ago with an all-in-one physical server with one job backing up all VMs. The environment grew considerably and RPOs are no longer met.
The engineer checks the backup job and sees:
Load: Source 0% > Proxy 68% > Network 0% > Target 0%.
What should be done to decrease the backup processing time?
The backup job indicates that the Proxy component is heavily utilized at 68%, while the Source, Network, and Target components show no significant load. This suggests that the Proxy is the bottleneck. To reduce the backup processing time, adding additional backup proxies can help distribute the load and improve performance. This is because with multiple proxies, backup tasks can be processed in parallel, utilizing multiple resources more efficiently.
maybe B, adding a new backup proxy doesn't help if we still use only one backup job
But if you've got multiple Proxy's, and you've selected automatic selection for the proxy, it might make a difference if you've got only one job, but a per VM setting?
Proxy is considered as bottleneck, if automatic selection is well selected (as per default) new proxies will help the backup to be done quicker