Case Study: Hunter Industries speeds backups and cuts management time with ExaGrid

Hunter Industries cuts backup time from 42 hours to 7 with ExaGrid

Hunter Industries, a family-owned manufacturer of irrigation and outdoor lighting solutions, faced significant challenges with an aging tape library backup system. Their backups were running nearly 23 hours a day, slowing the network and requiring 15 hours of weekly management. They needed a modern solution to drastically cut backup times and reduce their reliance on tape, leading them to choose a disk-based backup system with data deduplication from ExaGrid.

The ExaGrid system, which works with their Commvault backup application, implemented a post-process deduplication approach that delivered the fastest possible backups. This solution reduced Hunter's backup time for a key application from 42 hours to just 7 hours. The time spent managing backups plummeted from 15 hours per week to only one hour, providing immense time savings and operational liberation for the IT staff. ExaGrid also provided a cost-effective and scalable solution for future data growth.

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