Backup Windows 66% Shorter After Switch to ExaGrid
Since installing ExaGrid systems at the primary site and disaster recovery (DR) site, the IT team has found that backing up and restoring data has become an easy and straightforward process. RDV Corporation’s data consists of SQL, SharePoint, Exchange, CRM, and general file servers. “Our Exchange environment in particular is rather large, as there’s no retention policy around email,” said Joe Wastchke, senior systems engineer. The IT team is impressed with how short the backup windows are since switching to ExaGrid.
“We back up our data in daily incrementals and a weekly synthetic full. We assign our backup jobs by application and most of our backup windows are thirty minutes or less. Backing up our entire environment takes three hours. That’s a huge improvement compared with Avamar, as backing up our environment took up to nine hours with that solution. We were able to store a good deal of data on it, but it wasn’t as efficient,” said Gilreath.
ExaGrid writes backups directly to a disk-cache Landing Zone, avoiding inline processing and ensuring the highest possible backup performance, which results in the shortest backup window. Adaptive Deduplication performs deduplication and replication in parallel with backups for a strong recovery point (RPO). As data is being deduplicated to the repository, it can also be replicated to a second ExaGrid site or the public cloud for disaster recovery (DR).