Case Study: Long Beach Transit achieves 20x faster VM backups and 70% storage reduction with Veeam Backup & Replication

Veeam Puts Municipal Transit System in the Driver’s Seat

Long Beach Transit, the municipal bus and shuttle operator serving more than 27 million annual riders, needed a simpler, more reliable way to protect an IT environment that was roughly 70% virtualized. Their previous virtualization-specific backup tool was slow and hard to manage, and the IT team needed a solution that would support faster backups, easier disaster-recovery replication, and safe expansion of the virtual estate.

Working with MR2 Solutions, Long Beach Transit deployed Veeam Backup & Replication, gaining 20x faster backups, the ability to run incremental backups multiple times per day, and built-in deduplication/compression that cut backup storage by about 70%. Instant VM Recovery restored a corrupted database in minutes, Virtual Lab enabled safe testing, and replication of ~2 TB/day to a colocation DR site is now effortless and included at no extra cost—giving the team confidence to continue virtualizing and to add Hyper-V in the future.

Long Beach Transit

Mark Giorgis

Senior Network Administrator