Improved Backup Environment Leads to 95% Shorter Backup Windows and 97% Faster Restores
Mösch backs up Pestalozzi’s data in daily incrementals and a weekly full backup, as well as a yearly backup. In addition to updating the backup system, Pestalozzi also upgraded to a 10 GbE network, which replaced the 1GbE network it had used before, maximizing the speed of its backups. “Since updating our network and implementing ExaGrid, a backup of our entire data center has been reduced from 59 hours to just 2.5 hours. It’s a huge improvement!” said Mösch. “We often test restore times and recovering our data center would take over six days with our previous solution, which has been reduced to little more than three hours with our new ExaGrid-Veeam solution. That’s fast!”
Pestalozzi keeps a retention of three months’ worth of backups, as mandated by an internal policy, and Mösch finds that ExaGrid’s data deduplication maximizes storage capacity, so that maintaining the desired retention is never an issue. 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).