Case Study: John Knox Village achieves faster backups and restores with ExaGrid and Veeam

John Knox Village restores files in seconds with ExaGrid

John Knox Village, a not-for-profit retirement community, needed a new backup solution after virtualizing its environment and switching from Veritas Backup Exec to Veeam. The challenge was to find a reliable backup target that would work seamlessly with Veeam to ensure fast backups and restores while also providing robust disaster recovery capabilities through replication. They selected ExaGrid as their backup storage vendor.

ExaGrid implemented its tiered backup storage system with a disk-cache landing zone, which provided John Knox Village with fast daily incremental and weekly full backups. The solution also included a second ExaGrid appliance at a disaster recovery site for replication. The results included incremental backups completing in 15 minutes and restores taking mere seconds. The IT staff reported that the ExaGrid solution was highly reliable and saved them significant time on backup management, with the vendor's support team providing valuable expertise for their entire environment.

John Knox Village