Case Study: Spearfish School District achieves 87.5% faster, fully reliable backups with SEP Software

Spearfish School District - Customer Case Study

Spearfish School District was struggling with slow, unreliable backups using Symantec Backup Exec 9 and a separate Rsync replication process, which forced the district’s Technology Coordinator to reset jobs on weekends and endure frequent errors and 24+ hour backups per 500 GB server. Facing a migration to OES Linux and a heterogeneous environment (HP MSAs, Microsoft, Novell, VMware, GroupWise, MS SQL, MySQL), the district turned to SEP Software for a faster, more dependable backup and disaster recovery solution.

SEP Software implemented its high-performance backup solution with remote server capabilities and hands-on support, enabling a same-day, seamless transition that consolidated replication and backups into one product and added email notifications to eliminate constant monitoring. The result: an 87.5% reduction in backup time (a full backup that previously required splitting jobs over two servers and 24 hours now runs on one SEP server in 6 hours — eight times faster), far greater reliability, and much-improved support from SEP Software.

Spearfish School District

Scott Hardesty

Technology Coordinator