Case Study: Town of Kentville achieves 10X faster VM backups and near-instant file & Exchange recovery with NAKIVO Backup & Replication

NAKIVO Backup & Replication on NAS Improves VM Backup Speed by 10X for a Municipality

The Town of Kentville, Nova Scotia, a municipal government serving about 60–70 users, needed a more reliable, faster, and affordable VM backup solution for critical services (billing, SQL, Exchange, AD, file and web servers). Their previous backup product was slow, cumbersome, and costly, and Kentville wanted a solution that could leverage existing Synology NAS hardware while ensuring 24/7 availability of email and quick recovery in the event of outages.

Kentville installed NAKIVO Backup & Replication directly on their Synology NAS units, benefiting from an easy setup, a single-device backup stack that doesn’t tax the virtual environment, and flexible licensing that covered onsite and offsite NAS. With about 13 forever‑incremental backups run daily and backup copies sent offsite, backups became roughly 10× faster (including initial full backups) and allowed near‑instant granular recovery of files and Exchange objects—delivering faster restores, reliable notifications, lower cost, and reduced IT overhead.

Town of Kentville

Jason Bethune

IT Manager