Case Study: First Basin Credit Union achieves fast, easy backups, sub-30-minute recovery and 30% storage reduction with Barracuda Networks

First Basin saves time and money migrating to advanced Barracuda Backup

First Basin Credit Union, a 100‑employee financial institution in Odessa, Texas serving more than 25,000 members, was struggling with a slow, tape‑based backup system that required manual support, long recovery times and risked costly downtime.

The credit union migrated to a Barracuda Backup 690 appliance with hands‑on vendor support, enabling automatic replication, granular restores and deduplication (cutting storage needs by about 30%). The new solution now protects nearly 5 TB, reduced recovery from days to under 30–40 minutes in tested incidents, eliminated tape courier costs, and significantly sped up replication windows—saving time and money.

First Basin Credit Union

Brad Stillwell

Vice President of IT