The Municipality of North Perth, located 100 km west of Toronto, oversees various municipal services, from emergency response to waste management. With a responsibility to protect sensitive data, they faced multiple challenges with their existing backup processes, including unreliable solutions and the need for offsite disaster recovery (DR) backups.
Challenge: Unreliable Backups and Limited Bandwidth
The Municipality’s outdated backup solutions were inconsistent, leaving vital data vulnerable to loss. With the goal of ensuring data protection and meeting a strict Restore Time Objective (RTO) of under 4 hours, they needed a reliable offsite backup system. However, their 10/2 Mbps ADSL internet connection posed a challenge in supporting large offsite backups.
Solution: Fully Managed Disaster Recovery with Veeam Cloud Connect
Opti9 (formerly HostedBizz) stepped in to assess the Municipality’s IT environment and identified the best solution for their needs. A portable drive was used to seed the initial encrypted copy due to bandwidth limitations. Once in Opti9’s secure Canadian data center, backups were configured to meet the Municipality’s preferences for scheduling, encryption, retention, and compression.
Veeam Cloud Connect enabled seamless offsite backups, giving North Perth the ability to restore systems to the cloud in case of disaster, including ransomware or data corruption. The solution’s resiliency and redundancy ensured data security with the added benefit of a “Sandbox” for testing software and completing application updates in a non-production environment.
Results: Peace of Mind and Reliable Data Protection
With Veeam Backup and Replication, Opti9 provided the Municipality with fully managed and monitored disaster recovery as a service. Despite their limited bandwidth, daily backups completed within the required 4-hour RTO. The Municipality’s data is now securely stored in Canadian Tier 3 certified data centers, ensuring compliance with data sovereignty laws and offering peace of mind that their critical information is protected from potential cyber threats.
Key Benefits:
- Fully managed disaster recovery solution with Veeam Backup and Replication
- Offsite backups complete in 4 hours, even with limited bandwidth
- Full disaster recovery capabilities in Opti9’s Canadian cloud
- 100% Canadian data residency with Tier 3 certified data centers
Customer Testimonial:
“The move to having a full disaster recovery capability within Opti9’s Canadian cloud has been very cost-effective. Managing our cloud backups via the Veeam Management Console has simplified the entire process.”
– Eric Bauer, Technology Service Co-ordinator, Municipality of North Perth
