Case Study: Henry Boot PLC achieves rapid disaster recovery and cuts overnight backups from 20 to 2 hours with Arcserve

Henry Boot PLC ensures rapid disaster recovery with Arcserve

Henry Boot PLC, a 130‑year‑old UK property investment and development group with about 500 employees and head offices in Sheffield and Dronfield, was relying on ageing, disparate backup tools. Nightly backups could take up to 20 hours and demanded heavy maintenance, risking business continuity across its diverse, Hyper‑V virtualised environment, so the IT team sought a single, more efficient disaster‑recovery solution.

The company deployed Arcserve Appliances across its main sites, protecting 145 TB of data which was reduced by 81% to 28 TB and replicated between sites; incremental backups run 3–4 times daily and the overnight full backup now takes two hours, with instant VM access in under five minutes. The solution sped up backups and restores, freed IT resources, brought Office 365 data in‑house, improved compliance readiness and delivered a robust, long‑term disaster recovery capability.

Henry Boot

Daniel Dracup

IT Project Systems Manager