The Situation:   Each business day, a commercial bakery processes as many as 400 separate orders, which are entered by clerks into a database kept on a central file server.   At the end of the day the production requirements are printed and distributed to the bakers for overnight production and delivery early the next morning. A failure of the server containing the orders would result in lost orders, dissatisfied customers, and lost revenue if the server can be restored quickly with order data intact.

What We Did:  We installed a network attached storage device – networked, but inexpensive data storage – on the bakery’s network and Symantec’s Backup Exec System Recovery software on the file server.  The System Recovery software makes a complete backup of the main server very early every Monday morning.  Then, starting at 9:00 it backs up changes made to data on the server every hour each business day.  A failed server can be fully restored in one-half hour after physical repairs are made.  In this way, only a minimum amount of data will be lost.

The Result:  The bakery is assured that it can meet its production and distribution deadlines even in the case of a failed server.