PGG Wrightson shuns tape for disk

New Zealand infrastructure and storage specialists Revera recently replaced PGG Wrightson’s production environment tape backup with a disk-to-disk backup, saving the agricultural supplier more than 100 hours of backup time.

PGG Wrightson has more than 300 branches across the country and by switching from tape to disk, the daily incremental backup of more than 100 terabytes of data, which used to take more than 120 hours, now takes just 12.

The company has redeployed tape loaders for archiving data backed up to tape from the SAN.

PGG Wrightson IT Solutions Manager Richard Kay said: “With all backups now completed within their windows, nothing interferes with network performance. More strategically, the exercise was about managing risk and guaranteeing restoration of any data.”

The update is part of the company’s plan to consolidate and streamline its IT infrastructure in order to save time and reduce power and cooling demands.