Overall the majority of CSI and Restic flows showed comparable performance with the previous OADP 1.2, including Velero Builtin DataMover

The main performance-related difference for Datamover in 1.2 vs 1.3: concurrency limited to the number of workers for VBDM - known limitation.

Kopia in general performed slightly better than Restic in regards to backup duration.

Kopia, a new plugin for 1.3, showed reduced time for subsequent backups, following initial backup.

Largest PV backup and restore tested: pv of 4TB of which 3TB was utilized, completed successfully with  Kopia, Restic, and CSI 

Max number of pods in single namespace tested for backup/restore: 5000 pods completed successfully with Kopia, Restic and CSI

Max number of namespaces tested in a single backup and single restore: 200 namespaces totaling: 800 pods using Kopia plugin.

Validated Nodeagent & Velero resource recommendations using Kopia, Restic, and CSI, including native datamover flows.

Over 8 weeks of testing:  More than 34,000 pods, PVs, 24TB+ of data successfully backed up, and restored, including native data-mover and Kopia.

For more details, see https://docs.google.com/document/d/1eXbMLiCzPK1coYZeHm8_rOXo6kUF93d-IhUuMUxTxPA/edit#heading=h.d2lscd8e3s3s