Case Study: Clayton State University achieves sub-day backups and 12:1 deduplication with ExaGrid

Clayton State University Fed Up with Prior Backup System Installs Veeam and ExaGrid for the Win – Go Lakers!

Clayton State University, a public regional college in Morrow, Georgia, outgrew its homegrown file-server-to-tape backup process. As data volumes increased, full backups ballooned to 3.5–4 days and ran almost continuously, tape reliability issues left some data unprotected, and retention and disaster recovery became untenable.

CSU replaced tape with ExaGrid appliances (two in a primary GRID and one remote) and Veeam, using NFS mounts to include physical servers; the combined Veeam–ExaGrid deduplication averages about 12:1. Backups that once took four days now finish in under a day, all data is protected and replicated offsite, storage currently sits around 45 TB, and the scalable GRID plus strong vendor support lets the university grow capacity easily.

Clayton State University

Roger Poore

Network Engineer