Case Study: Greece Central School District achieves faster restores and easier backup scalability with ExaGrid

Greece Central School District restores files in 90 seconds with ExaGrid

The Greece Central School District, the tenth-largest district in New York State, faced significant challenges with its unreliable tape-based backup system. Restores were incredibly time-consuming, often taking up to a day and a half to complete, which overburdened its IT staff who performed multiple restores daily. The district selected ExaGrid and its tiered backup storage solution to replace its problematic tape library.

ExaGrid implemented its disk-based system with advanced data deduplication, which seamlessly integrated with the district's existing backup applications. The solution provided dramatically faster restore times, with a large directory that previously took a day and a half to restore now taking approximately 90 seconds. This allowed the IT staff to save significant time on managing backups and restores. ExaGrid's scalable and reliable system also provided the district with the ability to keep six months of data readily available.

Greece Central School District