ExaGrid Works with Existing Backup Application, Provides Effective Data Deduplication
After looking at several different solutions, Millennium Technology Group decided to purchase a disk-based backup system with data deduplication from ExaGrid. The ExaGrid system works along with the firm’s existing backup application, Veritas Backup Exec.
“The ExaGrid system fit right into our existing infrastructure, and it works seamlessly with Backup Exec. That helped with the learning curve and kept the system’s acquisition cost down,” said Steele. “We also looked carefully at different data deduplication technologies and decided that ExaGrid’s approach was the most efficient. ExaGrid’s adaptive approach dedupes the data after it hits the landing zone so that the server performance isn’t affected and the backup times are the fastest possible,” Steele said.
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). Since installing the ExaGrid system, Steele said that Millennium’s backups are now completed well within the company’s backup windows and restores are faster and far easier, too.
“Our backups absolutely fly now that we’ve installed the ExaGrid system. We’re able to finish our backups in plenty of time,” he said. “Restores are also far less time-consuming and more reliable than with tape. We can just point and click to restore a file.”