Case Study: Falmouth and Exeter universities achieve sub‑30‑minute bare‑metal recovery and safeguard 27 TB of student data with Arcserve UDP

Falmouth and Exeter universities Safeguard academic data for 5,500 student with Arcserve UDP

Falmouth Exeter Plus (FX Plus) provides shared services, including IT, to the joint Falmouth University and University of Exeter Penryn campus serving about 5,500 students and 1,200 staff. Their legacy tape-based backup couldn’t keep up with rising data volumes and virtualization—backup windows were routinely exceeded, restores were slow and manual with no item-level recovery, and the team needed a scalable solution to protect growing academic and operational data.

FX Plus deployed Arcserve UDP to protect 27 TB across roughly 170 servers (150 virtual, 20 physical), including 5,000 Exchange mailboxes, databases and a 5 TB file store. Automated full weekend backups with daily incrementals and offsite replication now complete within the backup window despite 33% data growth; Arcserve supports bare-metal recovery in under 30 minutes and full system restores in under half a day, cutting data-protection management time by 66% and ensuring availability, faster restores and long-term compliance.

Falmouth and Exeter

Nathan Prisk

Head of Technology and Innovation