Case Study: City of Durango reduces backup window from a week to a weekend with ExaGrid

City of Durango ISD Gets Back on Track with ExaGrid

The City of Durango Information Systems Division (ISD) was struggling to back up millions of small files from its SIRE document-management system to tape. Tape’s physical “shoeshine” effect and sequential access stretched full backups to about four days, forcing a week-long backup window and making restores slow and laborious.

ISD moved to an ExaGrid disk-based deduplication appliance integrated with Symantec Backup Exec, with easy installation and proactive support. The solution cut full backup time from ~4 days to ~30 hours, shrank the backup window from a week to a weekend, allowed up to four concurrent backup jobs, reduced restore times from hours to minutes, and produced overall deduplication ratios averaging about 5:1 (range 3:1–10:1).

City of Durango

Charlie Powell

Network Administrator