Case Study: Admiration Foods achieves 10x faster backups and extended retention with ExaGrid

Admiration Foods Implements ExaGrid for Better Backups

Admiration Foods, a family-owned food manufacturer with plants in New Jersey, Alabama and Tennessee, was struggling with retention and very long backup windows using a disk-to-disk-to-tape approach. Backups often took up to ten hours—causing differential jobs to overlap—restores were slow and tape was proving unreliable, so the IT team needed a faster, more manageable solution.

The company implemented an ExaGrid disk-based backup system with post-process deduplication, using Veeam for virtual servers and Symantec Backup Exec for physical servers, with nightly mirroring to a DR site. The change cut the backup window from 10 hours to about 1 hour, enabled at least six weeks of retention, simplified restores and daily management through automated alerts, and provided scalable, knowledgeable support for future growth.

Admiration Foods

Deven Shah

Vice President of Information Technology