Critical Systems Restored Quickly After Outage
Bütler and Tezak back up GastroSocial’s data regularly to ensure it is always available, with daily, weekly and monthly backups. In addition, they back up business-critical databases and transaction logs on an hourly basis.
“The best part of the performance is that the backups are not being written to deduplicated storage, but to a Landing Zone, which is great for backup and restore performance,” said Bütler. “Restores from ExaGrid’s Landing Zone are 3-4x faster than with our previous solution.”
ExaGrid’s industry-leading restore performance proved helpful when an unexpected incident occurred with one of the Uninterrupted Power Supply (UPS) devices. “We experienced a major outage at one point when there was a short circuit in one of our UPS devices, and we lost our SSD shelf in our storage. It was a horrible night!” said Tezak. “Thankfully, we were able to restore our production and all the business-critical systems with Veeam and ExaGrid. We had our most critical systems back online in a few hours thanks to the great restore speeds with ExaGrid.”
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).