Case Study: Century Arms achieves optimized backups and maximized storage with ExaGrid

Century Arms Optimizes Backups and Maximizes Storage with ExaGrid-Veeam Solution

Century Arms, a 50‑year U.S. manufacturer and distributor of firearms and accessories, found its Veeam backups and two-site ExaGrid systems underutilized after a staff transition. The IT team needed to reestablish reliable on‑ and offsite backups, fix deduplication settings, add capacity for cross‑replication, and shorten backup windows while improving restore speed and overall maintainability.

Century Arms implemented an ExaGrid‑Veeam hub‑and‑spoke solution, added an ExaGrid appliance, corrected Veeam settings, and enabled ExaGrid’s landing‑zone and adaptive deduplication. The result: combined deduplication ratios of roughly 6:1 to 10:1, daily incremental backups in 30–90 minutes, weekly fulls in a few hours, restores (including a 10‑minute folder recovery) in minutes, plus automated alerts and proactive support that restored confidence and simplified maintenance.

Century Arms

Keith Simpson

IT Systems Administrator