Case Study: Sainte‑Marie achieves fast VM recovery and cost savings with Veeam Backup & Replication

City Speeds Virtual Machine Recovery with Veeam Backup & Replication

Sainte-Marie, a Québec city of about 12,000 residents, relied on a small IT team to run two physical servers, multiple VMware hosts and nine virtual machines hosting Exchange, SQL and Oracle. After a Microsoft Exchange crash that took 2.5 days to rebuild, IT manager Paul Morin sought a faster, affordable backup solution built for virtualized environments because his previous tool lacked deduplication, NAS support and reliable full-VM recovery.

The city implemented Veeam Backup & Replication, enabling image-level backups with Instant VM Recovery, built-in deduplication and support for NAS storage. Restores that once took days now complete in minutes, backup storage requirements have dropped, and licensing costs are substantially lower—delivering faster recovery and meaningful taxpayer savings.

Sainte-Marie

Paul Morin

IT Manager