Backup Solution Provides Fast Reliable Media In Case Of Disaster At Park City Mountain Resort

By Idealstor LLC

Park City Mountain Resort is responsible for managing a majority of the IT infrastructure for the different POWDR Corp resorts. This entails developing the overall IT strategy and hosting key applications for their sister properties. PCMR had begun to assume the responsibility for managing and hosting all customer transaction activity and storing this critical data at the PCMR data center in Park City, UT. Hosting these applications and bringing the data in-house had already begun to put a strain on resources and increase the amount of data that needed to be backed up daily. This amount of data was estimated to continue to grow at a rate of 10-20% per year as more transactions were handled and additional resorts were brought online to the centrally deployed applications.

PCMR had been using a 40/80GB DLT tape autoloader running Veritas Backup Exec 9.1 to backup their data at the time this project was being rolled out. This method of backup had recently been deemed inadequate for their internal needs because of numerous failed backup and restore jobs as well as having their nightly backup run into the next morning when users were on the network. It was no secret that this system was inadequate and something needed to be done to increase the speed and reliability of their backup routine. Fixing their backup issues was especially important as they began to assume more of a central role in hosting applications and key data for the other POWDR resorts.

Park City Mountain Resort implemented the Idealstor FrankeNAS backup solution and Ibac Data Protection Software to backup and store their critical data. The FrankeNAS is a multi-functional backup and storage solution that combines redundant RAID5 storage and ejectable disk backup into one complete solution. The FrankeNAS that PCMR and POWDR Corp implemented had 1.1TB of SATA RAID5 storage capacity that could be used to store their data locally attached to the network. This unit also contained 2 Idealstor ejectable bays with total backup capacity of up to 500GB native per bay that could be used for offsite storage by physically ejecting the disks to be stored offsite just like tape.