Case Study: Kirkpatrick Bank achieves 95% faster backups and reliable disaster recovery with Barracuda Backup (Barracuda Networks)

Bank Modernizes Backups with Barracuda Backup

Kirkpatrick Bank, a business bank serving Oklahoma and Colorado with 140 users across five locations, faced unreliable tape-based backups, frequent failures, long eight-hour backup windows, and difficulty protecting remote sites. The bank needed a simpler, faster, and more reliable way to secure its mix of 17 virtual and physical servers across multiple branches.

Kirkpatrick deployed Barracuda appliances (two Backup 690s, one Backup 490, a Message Archiver 350, and a Spam Firewall 300) with site-to-site replication and cloud-connected management. Backups now require under 10 minutes of daily maintenance, backup time fell by about 95%, storage was reduced over 68% via deduplication, and disaster recovery proved fast—restoring a crashed server before lunch—while delivering secure multisite protection.

Kirkpatrick Bank

Shane Danels

Network Administrator