Case Study: British Red Cross achieves rapid, reliable multi-site backup and disaster recovery with Asigra Cloud Backup

British Red Cross Secures a Reliable Backup and Recovery System through Asigra Cloud Backup and Recovery Software

The British Red Cross, a volunteer-led humanitarian organisation with 120 remote offices, needed a secure, reliable disaster‑recovery solution to ensure operations could continue during emergencies. Their tape‑based backups were slow, error‑prone and often failed during restores, with nightly backups taking up to 36 hours—putting business continuity at risk.

They replaced tape with Asigra Cloud Backup and Recovery (deployed and supported by Backup Technology), using agentless DS‑Clients to dedupe, compress and encrypt data over an IP‑WAN to a central vault. The result: nightly backups shrank to 48 minutes, two full system restores achieved 100% recovery, an initial 5 TB/8 million‑file backup completed in 96 hours, and centralised monitoring automated processes and reduced manual effort across all sites.

British Red Cross

Miguel Fiallos

Head of MIS, British Red Cross