Case Study: University of Notre Dame achieves continuous uptime and near‑instant AWS recovery with Veeam

Notre Dame is mastering backup and recovery solutions for continuous uptime

The University of Notre Dame’s Office of Information Technologies (OIT) needed to protect a large, mission‑critical environment—hundreds of AWS instances (600+ and growing) and an ERP system that affects thousands of students, staff, and faculty—so that nd.edu and core services would remain available during traffic spikes, maintenance, or failures. After a load test exposed vulnerabilities, the OIT set out to find a reliable, cloud‑native backup and recovery solution to avoid catastrophic downtime and lengthy manual recoveries.

Notre Dame implemented N2WS Cloud Protection Manager on AWS, using incremental, block‑level snapshots to recover EC2 instances and EBS volumes in seconds. Setup took under an hour, a patch rollback that would have taken an hour on‑premises was resolved in five minutes, and the team reports about 25% less time spent on backups; the solution has enabled rapid scale (from dozens to ~750 instances), supported a cloud‑first migration, and preserved continuous uptime for campus operations.

University of Notre Dame

Aaron Wright

Systems Engineer