Case Study: PowerReviews achieves confident, scalable backup and recovery with zmanda

Rapid company growth prompts new backup solution

PowerReviews, a fast-growing San Francisco web startup, needed a more reliable backup and recovery solution after a laptop hard drive failure left the team spending two days restoring critical data. As the company scaled to more than 60 employees and 30 Windows plus 16 Mac clients, it turned to Zmanda and its Amanda Enterprise backup software to protect a mixed environment of systems and applications.

Zmanda’s QuickStart Services helped deploy the solution, including installation, policy setup, and backup/restore testing on PowerReviews’ Dell backup server and tape autoloader. The result was a flexible, centralized backup system that supports weekday backups, weekly tape dumps, and remote VPN access; PowerReviews reported successful Windows and Mac restore tests with no issues, improved confidence in backups, and the ability to add clients without hurting network performance.

PowerReviews

Matthew Lewis

Enterprise Backup Architect