Case Study: Railway Procurement Agency achieves seconds-fast SharePoint restores and saves two hours per week with AvePoint DocAve Backup and Restore

Railway Procurement Agency - Customer Case Study

Railway Procurement Agency (RPA), a Dublin-based state agency responsible for light rail and metro infrastructure and passenger services, relied on Microsoft SharePoint 2010 to host intranet and extranet content for roughly 230 users and more than 300 GB of data—expected to grow about 50%. As business-critical content increased, SharePoint’s native protection proved inadequate for granular restores (restoring a single item forced a full site restore), creating administrative overhead and risking missed SLAs.

RPA deployed DocAve Backup and Restore to run scheduled weekend full backups plus nightly granular and incremental backups, delivering SLA-driven, full-fidelity protection while preserving metadata, security settings, and version histories. Restores now take seconds and the solution saves the sole SharePoint administrator two hours per week; as Paul Cuthbert puts it, "DocAve’s reliability and scheduling function makes managing and administering our SharePoint backups easy."

Railway Procurement Agency

Paul Cuthbert

SharePoint Administrator, Railway Procurement Agency