Case Study: Twynham School achieves rapid, granular SharePoint recovery and conflict-free protection with AvePoint DocAve

Twynham School Relies On DocAve® To Protect Valuable SharePoint Data

Twynham Comprehensive School, a leading co‑educational secondary in Christchurch, England with 1,500 students, relied heavily on SharePoint (50GB+ content and 1TB of media delivery) after upgrading to MOSS 2007. Their existing Symantec Backup Exec protected Windows systems but failed to provide reliable, granular MOSS restores, forcing full database recoveries for single‑item restores. Twynham needed a backup solution that preserved metadata, supported out‑of‑place restores, and could run conflict‑free alongside their enterprise backup routines.

Twynham deployed AvePoint DocAve Backup & Restore, running nightly compressed backups to NAS with a 14‑day rotation and integrated tiering via Backup Exec. DocAve enabled fast, full‑fidelity, granular and out‑of‑place restores (notably recovering access files for 3,000 videos in minutes), greatly reduced restore time and resource use, increased content‑movement flexibility, and delivered a conflict‑free hybrid protection strategy with lower TCO and smoother future farm migrations.

Twynham School

Dave Coleman

Network Administrator, TwynhamSchool