Better Performance in a Shorter Time
It used to take Kleinloog half an hour just to set up the server for a restore, and now the entire restore process has been reduced to minutes. “We can actually start restores right from the ExaGrid. After a virus attack, we’ve had to restore files, and it took just ten minutes, at most,” Kleinloog noted. Kleinloog is impressed with how quick the backup process is, now that he uses the combination of ExaGrid and Veeam. He commented, “Our largest backup takes three and a half hours; that’s nothing compared to what it was before. Backup is easily five to six times faster.”
With shorter backup windows and quicker restores, as well as not needing to spend 20 hours a week resolving backup issues, Kleinloog has more time to accomplish other projects. Kleinloog commented, “If you look at dedupe ratios and the performance of the backup, it’s unbelievable. The performance is so good that I don’t need to check on it every day. We don’t have outages anymore; it’s just running – it’s up on arrival. We have a really dynamic environment, we’re growing and doing new things, so we actually needed this extra time.”
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).