Case Study: von Briesen & Roper, S.C. achieves faster backups and near-instant disaster recovery with ExaGrid

Law Firm Selects Cost-Effective ExaGrid System for Faster Backups, Better Disaster Recovery

von Briesen & Roper, S.C., a Wisconsin law firm founded in 1904 with more than 100 attorneys, needed to improve disaster recovery and speed up lengthy tape-based backups. Relying on offsite tape rotation left the firm vulnerable and constrained by a limited backup window, so IT sought a solution that could provide near‑instantaneous electronic replication to a secondary site.

The firm deployed a two‑site ExaGrid disk‑based backup system with post‑process deduplication, replicating nightly to a remote office 70 miles away and integrating with Symantec Backup Exec and Veeam. The result: backups now complete in under 12 hours, transmission between sites is nearly instantaneous with significant data reduction, management time has decreased, and the scalable GRID architecture plus proactive support ensures faster, more reliable recovery from disasters.

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Scott Timmerman

Senior IT Manager