Case Study: The Angmering School achieves reliable, scalable backups with Synology Inc.'s RS3412xs NAS

The Angmering School - Customer Case Study

The Angmering School faced growing data volumes, slow and error-prone tape backups, and difficult restores that threatened daily operations. IT Manager Marc Ginnaw needed an affordable, reliable and easy-to-manage backup solution, so the school turned to Synology Inc. and its RS3412xs NAS (running DiskStation Manager) to replace the tape-centric process.

Synology Inc. deployed an RS3412xs populated with 3 TB drives (≈36 TB usable), created an iSCSI LUN via DSM and connected it to a dedicated Symantec Backup Exec 2010 R3 server; this enabled routine backups of about 2 TB over weekends and 500 GB overnight, and allowed the NAS to be sited in a separate building for physical separation. The result was a well-documented, reliable backup routine, faster restores, easier management and clear scalability (thin provisioning, virtualization support and plans to connect to VMware) delivered by Synology Inc.

The Angmering School

Marc Ginnaw

OT Manager