Case Study: Ohio Farm Bureau achieves faster backups and restores with ExaGrid

Ohio Farm Bureau Harvests Faster Backups and Restores with ExaGrid

The Ohio Farm Bureau Federation, a statewide organization with over 225,000 members and a two-person IT team responsible for backups from 40 county offices, faced growing backup pain: nightly windows stretched to 12 hours and weekly full backups took nearly 50 hours, while tape management was slow and cumbersome. These constraints left some data unprotected and made restores time-consuming.

The bureau replaced tape with ExaGrid’s disk‑based backup appliance (working with Symantec Backup Exec), cutting the nightly window in half to six hours and reducing weekly full backups to 36 hours, while enabling three months of on‑site retention versus three weeks. Byte‑level de‑duplication (10–50:1) and disk-based restores made recoveries nearly instantaneous and simplified backup management.

Ohio Farm Bureau

Matthew Miller

Web and Database Administrator