Shorter Backup Windows and Fast Restores
Austin Bank’s backup environment is 70% virtualized, and Davenport uses Veeam to back up the virtual servers and Veritas NetBackup for the physical servers, which consist of domain controllers located in the bank’s numerous locations. Davenport backs up the virtual servers in daily fulls, and the physical servers in daily incrementals, with a weekly full backup. “Switching to ExaGrid has cut our backup windows by a couple of hours,” he said.
In addition to shorter backup windows, Davenport has found that restoring data is a much quicker process as well. “All of the restores, from servers to individual files, have been much faster since using our ExaGrid system,” said Davenport. 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 so that an RTO and RPO can be easily met. Available system cycles are utilized to perform deduplication and offsite replication for an optimal recovery point at the disaster recovery site. Once complete, the onsite data is protected and immediately available in its full undeduplicated form for fast restores, VM Instant Recoveries, and tape copies while the offsite data is ready for disaster recovery.