Case Study: Lebenshilfe Wetzlar-Weilburg e.V. saves 4 hours/week on backups and reduces storage by 87% with NAKIVO

NAKIVO Saves a Non-Profit 4 Hours a Week

Lebenshilfe Wetzlar-Weilburg e.V. is a German non-profit supporting people with disabilities across a headquarters and 14 branches (10 locations with physical servers and VMs). The organization needed an in‑house, GDPR-compliant, virtualized backup solution with centralized management, VM replication and multi-step backups after its legacy, physical-focused product proved unable to centralize backups or meet its virtualization needs.

Salutec implemented NAKIVO Backup & Replication (installed on a Synology NAS and tape) to provide agentless VM backup, replication and instant file recovery. Nightly incremental backups now complete in under two hours at HQ and 5–30 minutes at branches, global deduplication cut storage use by 87%, Active Directory integration simplified access, and instant file recovery can email users recovered files—resulting in faster recovery, centralized administration and about 4 hours saved per week on backup management.

Lebenshilfe Wetzlar-Weilburg e.V.

Dirk Bierwirt

IT Administrator