Case Study: Dorset Police achieves protection for 5x more data and saves 60–80 staff hours per month with Veritas NetBackup Appliances from Veritas Technologies

Dorset Police Protect 5x More Data While Saving 60-80 Staff Hours per Month with Veritas NetBackup Appliances

Dorset Police, a 2,600+ employee force serving a largely rural county and heavy tourist population, faced a sudden fivefold increase in backup volume after a new records system raised live data from about 3–4 TB to 20 TB. Their existing backup infrastructure was strained, causing more errors, time-consuming tape handling and daily administration overheads, while still needing absolute confidence in disaster recovery and fast retrieval for investigations and court cases.

The force deployed Veritas NetBackup Appliances (NetBackup 5230) to scale performance and reliability. The appliances restored fast, resilient backups with 60–80 staff hours saved per month, deduplication improving from 90% to 95%, about GB£16,000 estimated annual tape cost savings, removal of on-site tape storage, 60 days of appliance retention and most retrieval requests resolved instantly — with potential to extend the solution across partner forces for further economies of scale.

Dorset Police

Adrian Stephenson

Infrastructure and Service Delivery Manager