Case Study: Thompson Rivers University achieves a 50% reduction in backup window and rapid restores with ExaGrid

Thompson Rivers University Gives High Marks to ExaGrid’s Disk-Based Backup with Deduplication System

Thompson Rivers University, a 25,000‑student institution in Kamloops, BC, was struggling with an aging tape‑based backup environment: roughly 10 TB of data, multiple backup applications, and a backup window that had grown to nearly 20 hours, plus slow, complex restores that required multiple staff to complete.

TRU deployed ExaGrid’s disk‑based backup with post‑process deduplication (working with their existing Symantec NetBackup), which was simple to install and use. The change cut the backup window by about 50% (to under 10 hours), reduced restore times to minutes, delivered an average deduplication ratio of 15:1, and provided more reliable, easier‑to-manage data protection.

Thompson Rivers University

Rory Read

Senior IT Analyst