Backup Windows and Data Restores Reduced from Days to Hours
The backup and recovery engineering staff at ContinuitySA have noticed that switching to ExaGrid has improved the backup process,especially in terms of backup windows, and also the time needed to restore client data. “It used to take up to two days to run an incremental backup of a Microsoft Exchange server for one of our clients. An incremental of that same server now takes one hour! Restoring data is also much faster now that we use ExaGrid and Veeam. Restoring an Exchange server would take up to four days, but now we are able to restore an Exchange server in four hours!” said Lazarus.
ContinuitySA is confident in the security that ExaGrid uses to protect the data stored on its systems. “ExaGrid offers peace of mind that data is available to access whenever a client needs it, and that it will remain easily accessible for the foreseeable future,” said Janse van Rensburg. “There have been several ransomware attacks on client data, but our backups have been safe and uncrackable. We have always been able to restore our clients and save them from complete data loss or the need to pay ransomware funds. We have had zero data loss while using ExaGrid.”
ExaGrid is the only deduplication appliance that writes backups directly to a disk landing zone, avoids inline deduplication to increase backup performance, and stores the most recent copy in an undeduplicated form for fast restores and VM boots. “Adaptive” deduplication performs data deduplication and replication in parallel with backups while providing full system resources to the backups for the shortest backup window. 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.