Case Study: Australian Museum Trust achieves modern, reliable data availability and rapid recovery with Veeam

Veeam helps history and heritage enter the 21st century

The Australian Museum, custodian of more than 18 million objects and a national cultural institution, needed to modernize IT to protect its collection databases, meet strict chain-of-custody and compliance requirements, and support front‑of‑house services. Its legacy tape backup system was slow, expensive and unreliable—causing long restore windows, heavy manual effort and low recovery confidence—which put research, loans and revenue streams at risk.

Working with Nexus IT, the Museum implemented Veeam Backup & Replication Enterprise (disk backups, Veeam SureBackup and Veeam Explorer) to replace tapes. Restores improved from about one day to one hour, RPO and RTO improved by 300% and 650% respectively, ongoing tape costs and labor were eliminated, and daily backup validation reduced data‑loss risk. The change freed IT resources for customer‑facing projects (supporting 34 transformational projects), validated disaster‑recovery readiness and paved the way for further digital transformation.

Australian Museum Trust

Michael Brady

Manager ICT