Case Study: Westmoreland County reduces backup and restore times with ExaGrid

Westmoreland County cuts backup windows by nearly 50% with ExaGrid

Westmoreland County, a local government in Pennsylvania, was struggling with an inefficient tape-based backup system that resulted in long and unreliable backup windows, time-consuming restores, and significant daily administrative strain on its IT staff. Seeking to reduce its reliance on tape, the county chose a disk-based backup system from ExaGrid.

By implementing ExaGrid's solution with its post-process deduplication, Westmoreland County dramatically improved its operations. Full backup times were reduced from 40 hours to 26, and nightly incremental backups were cut in half from 8 hours to 4. Most notably, data restore requests that once took hours are now completed in minutes. The ExaGrid system freed up valuable staff time, provided seamless integration with their existing Veritas Backup Exec application, and delivered what the county described as a phenomenal support experience.

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