The organization needed a reliable backup system before it started transitioning to the new SAN and server environment.

At the time, its existing backup system had become unreliable and inconsistent and was based on tape libraries. The tape libraries were out of warranty and started to require maintenance.

The amount of data to back up had grown to the point that during the backup window there was not sufficient time to complete all the backup jobs necessary. The system, although once “state of the art,” was now slow, cumbersome to use, and unreliable. Backed up emails were difficult, at best, to retrieve.

To address its disaster recovery and archiving needs, Pflugerville turned to OpenText GroupWise Disaster Recovery and OpenText Retain Unified Archiving. Pflugerville uses GroupWise Disaster Recovery to back up seven OpenText GroupWise post offices and agents each night, so at any time, the district will lose no less than one day’s worth of emails in the event of a system failure. The district stores faculty and staff emails for seven years and student emails for two.

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