3.1 Overview of the Restore/Backup Utility

The backup or restore process can take a number of days. The following table provides some statistics that might give you some idea of the length of time required to run the Backup and Restore processes on 4TB of data, with 2TB of local VM backup and two USB drives of 2TB each.

Utility

Length of time to complete

Backup

  • Full Backup: 140 hours (5.83 days)

  • 2TB Backup: 70 hours

Restore

  • Full Restore: 93 hours (3.87 days)

  • 2TB Backup: 46 hours

In case of disruption during this process (for example, a network failure occurs between the administrative computer and the appliance or any other failure that prevents backup or restore from completing) the process is interrupted.

Should this occur, the utility allows for skipping some of previously completed steps. You can analyze the logs to determine which steps have completed successfully and which steps need to be re-run. For more information, see Section 3.3, Generated Files in the /output Directory and Section 3.5, Log File Locations.