Case Study: City of Holly Hill achieves fast, pain-free backups and reduced backup windows with ExaGrid

City of Holly Hill, Florida Relies on ExaGrid System for Fastest, Pain-Free Backups

The City of Holly Hill, Florida — a small coastal municipality supporting public safety, public works and administrative services — was struggling with rapidly growing data volumes (especially from law‑enforcement systems). Their tape‑based backups could not keep up, causing 36–48 hour full backups, network slowdowns and an unreliable nightly backup window that threatened critical services.

The city replaced tape with an ExaGrid disk backup appliance integrated with Symantec Backup Exec, using post‑process data deduplication to cut stored data and write directly to disk. Full backups dropped to under 24 hours, 90‑day retention goals were met, administration time was greatly reduced, installation was quick, and the solution is scalable for future growth and offsite disaster recovery.

City of Holly Hill

Scott Gutauckis

IT Manager