Case Study: Kern County Sheriff’s Office reduces SharePoint content database storage by 84% with AvePoint's DocAve

Kern County Sheriff’s Office Reduces Data Stored in Microsoft® SharePoint® Content Databases by 84% with DocAve

The Kern County Sheriff’s Office (Bakersfield, CA), supporting roughly 2,000 users across 33 locations, relied on Microsoft SharePoint for inmate logs, training, budgets, and interagency collaboration but faced rapid data growth and the need for reliable, fast recovery and better platform performance. Restoring deleted content using native tools was time-consuming, and large binary files threatened to bloat SQL content databases and degrade system responsiveness.

By deploying AvePoint DocAve (Backup & Restore and Storage Manager), the agency implemented automated nightly full and granular backups, rapid site-level restores, and rules to externalize BLOBs over 1 MB. The result: accidental sites restored in about 30 minutes, 84% of SharePoint data moved out of the content database, noticeable performance improvement within 24 hours, and reduced admin overhead allowing staff to focus on other priorities.

Kern County Sheriff’s Office

Chris Mulanax

Senior Information Systems Specialist, Kern County Sheriff’s Office