diff --git a/charts/tidb-backup/values.yaml b/charts/tidb-backup/values.yaml
index 257c306a6d..b240ba2ec7 100644
--- a/charts/tidb-backup/values.yaml
+++ b/charts/tidb-backup/values.yaml
@@ -41,8 +41,11 @@ storage:
   className: local-storage
   size: 100Gi
 
-# backupOptions is the options of mydumper https://github.com/maxbube/mydumper/blob/master/docs/mydumper_usage.rst#options
-backupOptions: "--verbose=3"
+# -t is thread count, larger thread count will speed up the backup, but may impact the performance of the upstream TiDB.
+# -F is the chunk size, a big table is partitioned into many chunks.
+# Other useful options are -B for database, and -T for tables.
+# See https://github.com/maxbube/mydumper/blob/master/docs/mydumper_usage.rst#options for more options.
+backupOptions: "-t 16 -F 256 --skip-tz-utc --verbose=3"
 # Set the tidb_snapshot to be used for the backup
 # Use `show master status` to get the ts:
 #   MySQL [(none)]> show master status;
diff --git a/charts/tidb-cluster/values.yaml b/charts/tidb-cluster/values.yaml
index 7effd70bf7..8989db189a 100644
--- a/charts/tidb-cluster/values.yaml
+++ b/charts/tidb-cluster/values.yaml
@@ -519,8 +519,11 @@ scheduledBackup:
   failedJobsHistoryLimit: 1
   # https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/job/automated-tasks-with-cron-jobs/#starting-deadline
   startingDeadlineSeconds: 3600
-  # https://github.com/maxbube/mydumper/blob/master/docs/mydumper_usage.rst#options
-  options: "--verbose=3"
+  # -t is thread count, larger thread count will speed up the backup, but may impact the performance of the upstream TiDB.
+  # -F is the chunk size, a big table is partitioned into many chunks.
+  # Other useful options are -B for database, and -T for tables.
+  # See https://github.com/maxbube/mydumper/blob/master/docs/mydumper_usage.rst#options for more options.
+  options: "-t 16 -F 256 --skip-tz-utc --verbose=3"
   # secretName is the name of the secret which stores user and password used for backup
   # Note: you must give the user enough privilege to do the backup
   # you can create the secret by:
diff --git a/tests/actions.go b/tests/actions.go
index 6f4d5b2d61..14720bb242 100644
--- a/tests/actions.go
+++ b/tests/actions.go
@@ -1818,7 +1818,6 @@ func (oa *operatorActions) DeployAdHocBackup(info *TidbClusterConfig) error {
 		"user":            "root",
 		"password":        info.Password,
 		"storage.size":    "10Gi",
-		"backupOptions":   "\"--verbose=3\"",
 		"initialCommitTs": strings.TrimSpace(tsStr),
 	}