LINDNER GROUP CENTRALIZES BACKUP FOR 60 LOCATIONS WITH DX一世APPLIANCES

The Lindner Group—a leading European interior fit-out, facade construction, and insulation engineering company—needed a way to centralize data backups for 60 office locations in multiple countries while also optimizing backup and restore workflows.

Jeopardizing Data with Distributed Tape Backup

The Lindner Group has a complex server infrastructure with both physical and virtual servers on Linux and Windows platforms. Every branch office has its own server, and some large construction sites also have their own IT infrastructure.

In the past, each site backed up data to tape. But the process was prone to errors that could result in data loss. Employees at remote sites sometimes inserted the wrong tapes or forgot to change them.

为了提高备份控制并最大限度地减少错误,公司的IT组决定实施一个集中进程。亚搏官网app登录入口创建集中磁带档案的初始尝试仅暂时成功 - 数据卷很快超过了磁盘系统的容量。

The team needed to find a new solution that could handle current data volumes and easily scale in the future. “It was clear that the new solution would definitely have to include a deduplication feature to avoid wasting capacity,” says Florian Heindl, IT administrator at the Lindner Group.

DXi Trial a Success

德国的Quantum Silver合作伙伴Florestan帮助Lindner评估了QuantumDXI®重复数据删除设备。Heindl的团队对结果感到满意。“随着我们的大量服务器,都有物理和虚拟,我们必须备份到大量的虚拟磁带驱动器 - 比我们以前的解决方案更多的解决方案可以处理,”Heindl解释说。“但是Quantum Depee技术和大量虚拟驱动器DXI支持已经提供了我们所需要的。”

Reducing Capacity, Improving Scalability

Heindl deployed the DXi deduplication appliance plus an additional DXi6900 appliance to meet the company’s data growth and performance requirements. “Thanks to the deduplication appliances, our disk storage requirements have gone down from 2 PB to a mere 150 TB,” says Heindl. “And the capacities of the two DXi appliances are nowhere near exhausted.”

新解决方案还包含更多备份。通过以前的解决方案,公司只有一周的备份。亚搏官网app登录入口现在它可以保留所有每周备份,最后三个季度备份以及最后一次备份 - 全部磁盘。

Providing 100% Disaster Recovery Protection

Today, the Lindner Group has an integrated, centralized backup and disaster recovery (DR) process. For all but two locations, where local data is still kept on tape, all company offices and construction sites replicate data in real time to the data center at the company headquarters. There, all the backups are written to the DXi appliances—full backups each weekend and differential backups every weekday. Backups written to the DXi system are also written to tape immediately. Once a week, the backup tapes are brought into one of several separate, protected locations where they are placed in a safe to provide an extra level of DR protection.

新的备份环境使恢复数据简单。“通过DXI重复数据删除设备,许多月的备份数据保留在磁盘上,”Heindl说。“如有必要,所有地点的员工都可以访问公司总部存储的数据集 - 因此,无论发生什么,它们都可以继续工作。”