Case Study: Kern County Sheriff's Office achieves faster backups and restores with ExaGrid tiered backup storage

Kern County Sheriff's Office speeds restores to 35 minutes with ExaGrid

The Kern County Sheriff's Office needed to upgrade its disaster recovery plan, seeking a more dependable solution than its existing tape backup library. They wanted a disk-based system with data deduplication to maximize storage efficiency and budget. The vendor ExaGrid provided its Tiered Backup Storage system, which integrated seamlessly with their existing Veritas Backup Exec application.

By implementing ExaGrid's disk-based backup with post-process deduplication, the Sheriff's Office achieved dramatic improvements. Backups became faster and more reliable, with deduplication ratios averaging 16:1 and reaching as high as 30:1. Restores were significantly accelerated, with one server fully recovered in just 35 minutes. The ExaGrid solution freed up IT resources, provided a reliable disaster recovery setup, and allowed for longer data retention periods.

Kern County Sheriff's Office