Case Study: The Universidad de A Coruña achieves 48-hour disaster recovery (down from weeks) with Veeam

The Universidad de A Coruña cuts disaster recovery time from weeks to 48 hours with Veeam

The Universidad de A Coruña (UDC) is a public university in Galicia, Spain, serving about 25,000 students and staff across two campuses. Tasked with using public funding creatively while adopting cloud, AI and automation, UDC needed a future-proof data protection strategy to ensure nonstop availability, reduce administration and minimize downtime that previously left disaster recovery measured in weeks.

Using the Veeam Data Platform (Foundation Edition), UDC transformed backups and disaster recovery—cutting backup storage needs by ~60%, reducing backup times by 67% and shortening full disaster recovery from weeks to about 48 hours. The solution delivered near‑instant restores with minimal manual work, enabled recovery of critical servers with a few clicks, has supported the university for 12+ years, and scales to integrate new workloads and cloud environments like Azure.

The Universidad de A Coruña

Daniel López

Systems Architect, Infrastructure Department