Case Study: Lourdes College achieves nearly 75% faster backups with ExaGrid disk-based backup and data deduplication

ExaGrid Disk-based Backup with Data Deduplication Scores High Marks with Lourdes College

Lourdes College, a small liberal-arts college with about 3,000 students and faculty in Sylvania, Ohio, faced rapidly growing data after deploying Panopto. Their tape-based backup process no longer fit inside nightly windows—backups were taking roughly 15 hours—and the IT team needed a reliable, scalable solution that would allow safe incremental/differential backups and reduce storage demands.

The college implemented a two-site ExaGrid disk-based system working with Symantec Backup Exec; installation was quick and seamless. ExaGrid’s post-process, byte-level deduplication and WAN-efficient replication cut backup time by about 75 (from ~15 hours to just over 2 hours), reduced storage needs, simplified disaster recovery, and delivered scalable capacity and responsive vendor support.

Lourdes College

John Alderman

Network Analyst