Case Study: Northern District of Illinois U.S. Probation Office cuts nightly backups by 6 hours and simplifies restores with ExaGrid

ExaGrid Helps U.S. Probation Office for the Northern District of Illinois Cut Backup Times, Makes Restoring Files Simple

The United States Probation Office for the Northern District of Illinois, which serves Chicago and Rockford, was struggling with tape-based backups that often took over 14 hours and degraded network performance—forcing canceled jobs and making timely data access difficult. They needed a faster, more reliable way to shorten backup windows and simplify restores.

The agency deployed ExaGrid two-site disk-based backup with post-process byte-level deduplication alongside Symantec Backup Exec (systems in Lisle and Chicago). Nightly differential backups were reduced by six hours, restores became simple and immediate, on-site storage needs dropped thanks to 10:1–50:1 deduplication, and the solution offered easy setup, scalability, and responsive support.

Northern District of Illinois

Rome Palmore

Senior Network Administrator U.S. Probation Office, Northern District of Illinois