Case Study: 12Stone Church achieves an 80% shorter backup window with ExaGrid

12Stone Church Reduces Backup Window by 80% with Veeam and ExaGrid

12Stone Church, a multi‑campus congregation serving over 15,000 weekly, was struggling with slow, hard‑to‑manage backups using tape and USB drives (managed with Windows Server Backup and Veritas Backup Exec). Restores were time‑consuming, offsite rotation was cumbersome, and the IT consultant overseeing storage sought a more reliable, scalable solution that fit the church’s move toward virtualized servers.

The church deployed ExaGrid appliances at its primary and DR sites paired with Veeam, a solution that installed in an afternoon and preserved existing backup workflows. The result: backup windows shrank by 80% to about two hours, restores dropped from hours to minutes (including instant VM recoveries), deduplication maximized capacity so no immediate scale‑out was needed, and staff time and frustration were significantly reduced—saving up to ten hours per week.

12Stone Church

Steve Gimbert

IT Consultant