Case Study: Chelsea Groton Bank achieves 99% faster disaster recovery and 96% shorter backups with Veeam Backup & Replication (Veeam)

Veeam Backup & Replication A Disaster Recovery Solution to Bank On

Chelsea Groton Bank, a nearly 160‑year‑old community bank in southeastern Connecticut, had more than half its infrastructure virtualized (four hosts and 30 VMs) but relied on slow, costly tape backups. Nightly backups regularly exceeded the 12‑hour maintenance window, spilled into the business day, slowed the network, and required couriering tapes for file restores.

After a 30‑day trial they deployed Veeam Backup & Replication, implementing nightly off‑site replication and fast file‑level restores. Backups dropped from over 12 hours to about 30 minutes (a 96% reduction), disaster recovery times improved by 99% (Active Directory in ~5 minutes, a 500 GB database in ~10 minutes), file restores take under five minutes, and SAN costs were reduced by about $10,000 in the first year.

Chelsea Groton Bank

Larry Walker

Vice President and Data Processing Officer, Chelsea Groton Bank