Case Study: Uhl Truck Sales achieves dependable backups and rapid restores with Unitrends Recovery 813

Total Solution for Virtual Servers, VMware Hosts and Desktop Clients

Uhl Truck Sales, a 60‑year‑old Louisville transportation parts and service company with $2.4M in inventory and 24/7 emergency support, faced a critical IT failure when backups created with Backup Exec and Veeam/tape appeared successful but could not be restored. Director of IT Tim Humes needed a more reliable, testable solution after discovering backups had not been written to tape and prior tools failed to raise alerts.

Humes deployed a Unitrends Recovery 813 appliance (with an RXDA for rotational archiving), providing full bare‑metal protection across VMware hosts, Dell/EMC infrastructure, AS/400 and SQL servers, and desktops. The appliance alerts on failures, makes restores and file mounts easy, and has repeatedly recovered data for Uhl, delivering peace of mind and strong vendor support.

Uhl Truck Sales

Tim Humes

Director of IT