Testing DPM 2016 now. I find it awfully slow for working on a file server (a million files, around 5tb of data - so something quite small). It looks like DPM is copying the files one by one to a vhdx in the backup area.
Anyone has any idea about standard procedures to speed this up? Right now I am seriously on the side that I will virtualize the file server and move that to a fully virtual infrastructure (i.e. only the infrastructure has hardware) because I can pull a backup of a VM with full wire speed - contrary to the file server.
I did some searching on the internet, and I find a lot of references to this issue going back many years. Examples:
https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/420872-system-center-2012-dpm-slow-replica-creation
and nothing seems to have changed in the 2016 version?