Case Study: Acorn Fasteners achieves 4-hour disaster recovery with NAKIVO Backup & Replication

NAKIVO Enables Manufacturing Company to Recover Core Services at the Flick of a Switch and Get Back Online within 4 Hours of a Complete Disaster

Acorn Fasteners Ltd., a manufacturer of threaded fasteners, ran a small virtual environment (20 desktops and five servers hosting Exchange, ERP/MRP, Domain Controller and vCenter) and required 24/7 availability for core services such as their online store. Their existing protection—daily backups to USB drives rotated offsite—offered slow, manual recovery that would have required rebuilding systems and buying replacement hardware after a full-site disaster, with an estimated downtime of about one week.

Working with PRAIZAR, Acorn deployed NAKIVO Backup & Replication to replicate VMs to a remote data center using forever‑incremental replication, changed block tracking, compression and SAN-accelerated transfers; the appliance‑less, low-overhead solution proved fast and easy to use. The result: core services can be failed over and back online in roughly four hours instead of a week, enabling rapid disaster recovery “at the flick of a switch.”

Acorn Fasteners

Jim Rankin

Strategic Project Manager