Case Study: Camas School District achieves faster backups, longer retention, and quicker restores with ExaGrid

Camas School District cuts backup windows by 72% with ExaGrid

The Camas School District, located in Washington state, was struggling with extensive backup windows and data growth using its Veeam backup software and a SAS array. Their backups were running nearly 11 hours, often interfering with the start of the school day, and they lacked the ability to retain data long-term. The district's systems engineer, Adam Green, sought a new backup storage solution with deduplication and chose the ExaGrid system for its competitive price and performance guarantees.

By implementing ExaGrid's tiered backup storage with a disk-cache Landing Zone and integrated Veeam Data Mover, the district achieved dramatic improvements. ExaGrid reduced backup windows by 72%, from 11 hours to just 3 hours, allowing time for additional synthetic full backups. Restore performance was enhanced, enabling the use of Veeam Instant Restore, and deduplication allowed for year-long data retention. The Camas School District also praised ExaGrid's consistent and proactive customer support, noting the system exceeded its promised deduplication ratios.

Camas School District