Thursday 20 December 2012

StorageCraft IT Edition: Network Backup at AES128bit Performance

This is _neat_ to see:

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This is a Windows 7 Enterprise x64 machine being backed up across the wire (Gigabit) to a Windows Server 2008 R2 file server using ShadowProtect IT Edition (v4.x.x).

We used AES 128bit encryption with a pass phrase for this particular backup.

  • Intel Core i7-875K
  • Intel DP55KG (BIOS 3878)
  • 4GB Kingston ValueRAM

When at all possible it is our preference to run our backup and restore to a network location as USB 2 is just _too_ slow.

Philip Elder
MPECS Inc.
Microsoft Small Business Specialists
Co-Author: SBS 2008 Blueprint Book

Windows Live Writer

3 comments:

Chris Lilley said...

Hi Philip

Do you dedicate a separate NIC for this operation?

Chris Lilley
(Lorica Ltd)

Philip Elder Cluster MVP said...

Chris,

The file server has a team of two Gigabit NICs while the workstation being imaged has one.

Philip

Anonymous said...

v5 was just released.