Case Study: General Logistics Systems (GLS) Poland achieves 69% faster backups and 94% quicker file-level recovery with Veeam Backup & Replication

Leading Parcel Delivery Service in Poland Improves Data Disaster Recovery with Veeam Backup & Replication

GLS Poland, a major parcel and express delivery provider with 29 locations serving 400 internal users and 5,000 online customers, faced growing data and availability challenges as nearly half its environment ran on VMware vSphere. The IT team needed a reliable, fast VMware backup and disaster-recovery solution because their previous tape- and NFS-based process took about eight hours and manual file searches could take up to 90 minutes, limiting restore capabilities and risking service delays.

By deploying Veeam Backup & Replication, GLS cut the backup window from eight hours to 2.5 hours (a 69% improvement) and reduced file-level recovery from roughly 90 minutes to about five minutes (a 94% improvement). Full virtual-machine restores now take minutes and any team member can perform them, backup file size dropped from 700 GB to 400 GB, and the IT team saves more than 50 hours annually in maintenance—delivering faster, more reliable data protection and greater confidence in disaster recovery.

General Logistics Systems Poland

Lukasz Komorowski

System Administrator, GLS Poland