Case Study: Colorado Parks and Wildlife eliminates SharePoint backup bottlenecks with Metalogix SharePoint Backup

Colorado Parks and Wildlife - Customer Case Study

Colorado Parks and Wildlife, a state government agency, faced significant challenges in backing up and restoring its SharePoint environment. Their enterprise backup solution lacked granular SharePoint support, forcing administrator Deon Kuhl's team to rely on inefficient manual batch files. This process created bottlenecks, as restoring accidentally deleted content required a multi-day wait for a system-wide restore, severely disrupting their 900 users. To gain control over the process, CPW turned to vendor Metalogix Software for its SharePoint Backup solution.

The solution implemented was Metalogix SharePoint Backup, which provided granular, rapid restore capabilities for both entire sites and individual files. This eliminated the need for manual scripting and removed the restore bottleneck by putting the process directly in the administrators' hands. The results were significant time savings, with the administrator reclaiming an hour each morning previously spent troubleshooting, and the ability to restore data as quickly as it was backed up with no disruption to end users. Metalogix provided a reliable, one-stop-shop solution that also set the foundation for CPW's future plans to use other Metalogix products for migration and storage optimization.

Colorado Parks and Wildlife

Deon Kuhl

SharePoint Administrator