Case Study: Compton Unified School District achieves 6X faster VM backups and instant file recovery with NAKIVO Backup & Replication

NAKIVO on Synology NAS Shortens VM Backup Window by 6X for a California School District

The Compton Unified School District (CUSD), serving about 26,000 students across 36 schools and 4 administration sites in Los Angeles County, needed a reliable, low-cost way to protect 80 Hyper‑V VMs after a rapid migration to a hyper‑converged environment. Their previous agent‑based backup solution imposed long backup windows (over 12 hours), high administrative overhead, costly licensing, and unreliable VM replication—putting compliance and disaster‑recovery needs at risk.

CUSD deployed NAKIVO Backup & Replication on Synology NAS (DS1817 on site with a DS916+ offsite), which writes backups directly to disk and leverages NAS resources. The change cut backup windows from 12 hours to 2 hours (6× faster), improved replication success, enabled near‑instant file recovery, reduced costs by reusing hardware, and lowered administrative effort through automated notifications and simpler management.

Compton Unified School District

Tony Burrus

Chief Technology Officer