Case Study: Cheektowaga Central School District achieves a 14-to-3 hour backup window and 75% less backup administration time with ExaGrid

Cheektowaga Central School District Deploys ExaGrid, Speeds Backups, Increases Reliability

Cheektowaga Central School District, a suburban district east of Buffalo serving over 2,300 students, was struggling with slow, unreliable tape backups that kicked off each evening and often ran into the next morning. The thin margin for error meant incomplete backups, frequent troubleshooting, and significant daily management overhead for IT staff.

The district installed an ExaGrid disk-based backup system that worked with its existing Symantec Backup Exec; post-process deduplication and disk-to-disk backups reduced the nightly backup window from 14 hours to about 3 hours. The solution delivered faster restores, higher data integrity, and easier management—saving roughly 75% of the time previously spent administering backups—while remaining scalable and simple to support.

Cheektowaga Central School District

Colleen Eagen

Micro Computer Technical Support Specialist, Erie 1 BOCES