Case Study: Com-Trade reduces VM recovery time from hours to minutes with NAKIVO Backup & Replication

NAKIVO VM Backup Appliance Based on QNAP NAS Reduces VM Recovery Time from Hours to Minutes

Com-Trade s.r.o., a Slovakia-based IT service provider, needed a reliable VM backup solution to protect website servers, an accounting system, and Microsoft SQL data. Their previous backup approach produced long recovery times—about two hours or more—which risked prolonged business disruption and prompted the search for a purpose-built VMware backup product that could recover entire VMs and individual files quickly.

They installed NAKIVO Backup & Replication on a QNAP NAS (TS-563-2G), avoiding additional hardware and gaining daily block-level VM backups, automatic testing, and offsite backup copies. Using Flash VM Boot and instant file recovery, Com-Trade reduced VM recovery from roughly two hours to a few minutes, saved storage via unique-block handling, and implemented GFS retention and offsite copies for stronger recoverability.

Com-Trade

Richard Rajniak

Chief Executive Officer