Case Study: Pennsylvania State University achieves 80–90% faster GroupWise backups and instant restores with OpenText GroupWise Disaster Recovery

Office of Physical Plant at Pennsylvania State University recently implemented Micro Focus GroupWise Disaster Recovery for purposes of hot backups, quick restore, and push-button disaster recovery of the GroupWise system

The Office of Physical Plant at Pennsylvania State University, which supports campus teaching, research, and service and manages GroupWise for about 1,400 users across two post offices, faced lengthy, labor-intensive backups that often took more than 24 hours and risked slow recovery in disaster scenarios. The IT team needed a faster, more reliable way to perform hot backups and enable quick, push-button restores without excessive disk or processing overhead.

They implemented Micro Focus GroupWise Disaster Recovery, a GroupWise‑specific solution that uses a collector/RSYNC architecture, single-instance storage and Smart Purge to keep backups current and compact. As a result, post office backups now take under two hours (scheduled up to four times daily), backup times fell by 80–90%, a lost personal address book was restored in minutes, and IT staff regained time previously spent on lengthy recovery tasks.

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