How Synology Doubled Hyper Backup Performance?
It is very challenging to get the best backup speed. More than 1500 IT professionals find backup performance one of the basic challenges. The reason being, poor backup speeds pause the production process in an organization.
On the off-chance, a backup task takes more than the designated time, workloads increase and hence data remains unprotected. Due to this reason, Synology introduced Hyper Backup feature in its NAS devices. It reduces the time required to complete a backup task. After all, the call for faster data backups has increased these days.
How is Synology Hyper Backup Task Executed?
To attain the maximum backup speeds, Synology Hyper Backup task is executed into six steps. However, to initiate the task, one needs to access the find.synology URL on a computer connected to the same WiFi network as the Synology NAS. Given below are the six steps in which a Synology Hyper Backup task is executed:
- Beginning of the backup task
- Collection of metadata from files
- Analysis and initiation of backup content
- Deduplication (Prevention of multiple copies of the same data)
- Assembling of the Backup file
- Backup data processing
Tools like perf, ebpf, and iperf are used to analyze the on-CPU and off-CPU elements. If two mechanisms are enhanced, then Hyper Backup performance can be improved at a phenomenal speed even when the data amount is massive.
Factors that Doubled Synology Hyper Backup Performance
Given below are the factors that when enhanced improves the backup performance of a Synology NAS storage device:
1. Parallel Processing is Improved
Backup tasks contain multiple files and this is where problem arises. Processing and backing up too many files at the same time is very difficult. But, Synology worked on this factor and improved the parallel workflow in a backup task. Whenever a backup task is created, the following things happen:
- Providers generate tasks
- Consumers execute the task
In simple words, providers identify the files that must be backed up. On the other hand, consumer executes the read/write operation. When the data is backed up, loading and waiting time is very crucial. Task distribution and memory allocation affects this equilibrium a lot. Synology has refined all this and enabled handling of all backup tasks simultaneously which has improved the backup efficiency by 30%.
2. Metadata Collection is Revamped
Data collection is another aspect of a backup task. Too much data is required for backup and deduplication. This affected the backup speed a lot previously. Synology has examined and worked on the metadata request in every process, removed redundancies, and eased out the metadata-collection process.
Apart from this, memory cache mechanism has been introduced to reduce the hard disks’ burdens. As a result incremental backup and deduplication task’s speeds have increased greatly.
Due to these improvements, Synology Hyper Backup performance has increased. In a test conducted by Synology, an improvement of 95% has been noticed for backup tasks with these enhancements. Hence, millions of files can be handled at the same time.
The Final Words
In the every-evolving digital world, Synology keeps improving its products and services. Thus, if you have a large amount of data to be handled, you should upgrade your DSM and Hyper Backup to the latest version.
Besides, Synology is now working on how to identify changes in files efficiently while data is being backed up so that extreme cases like handling tons of data in case of power outages can be addressed.
