Case Study: Xstrata Coal Queensland achieves legislative compliance and continuous SharePoint access with AvePoint DocAve

Xstrata Coal Queensland Meets Legislative Requirements by Regularly Replicating 20 GB of SharePoint Data from Primary Farm to Six Dispersed Farms throughout Queensland with DocAve

Xstrata Coal Queensland, part of the global Xstrata Coal group, needed to keep critical Safety and Health Management System documents available across seven SharePoint farms—replicating approximately 20 GB from a primary farm in Brisbane to six remote farms—to meet strict Queensland legislative requirements. Native SharePoint replication proved unreliable and time-consuming, consuming about 40% of a network engineer’s time and risking inconsistent intranet access, even during outages or disasters.

Xstrata implemented AvePoint’s DocAve Replicator plus DocAve Backup and Restore to perform full-fidelity, automated (real-time and scheduled) replication and daily full backups. The solution ensured up-to-date intranet data across all sites—maintaining read-only access during the 2011 floods, restoring a farm in two hours after a server failure—and reduced replication time for the network engineer from ~40% to ~10% (a 30% time savings), allowing the company to meet legislative availability requirements.

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