Retention policies are a vital part of your backup strategy. This guide will explain the purpose of retention policies and provide a step-by-step walkthrough on how to create, assign, and manage them in MSP360 Managed Backup for Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace.
Exchange Server supports a broad range of data protection options. In this blog post, we cover incremental data backup peculiarities and consider the cases this feature suits best. We will also show how to configure this backup type using MSP360 Backup for MS Exchange.
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MSP360 Backup and MSP360 Explorer for Amazon S3 receive a minor update that brings support for BackBlaze B2 application keys.
The backup routine for MS SQL Server includes various repetitive tasks that require a lot of time and attention. Fortunately, there are built-in Microsoft SQL Server tools that can automate many of these steps and simplify your daily routine. This article discusses those built-in tools, while also showing how to use MSP360 software for MS SQL Server automatic backup.
Multiple backup schedules are used in most backup infrastructures to make backup processes flexible and efficient. You can, for example, configure separate backup schedules for the whole server backup and just one SQL database. However, built-in Windows Server Backup does not allow this to be accomplished via its GUI. Continue reading
Azure Archive Storage is an archive tier of Microsoft Azure Blob Storage in addition to hot and cool tiers. It is designed to help organizations reduce their storage costs by storing rarely accessed data in a lowest-priced tier. Microsoft offers an industry leading price point for archiving data (0.2 cents per GB/month). Continue reading
As you may know, Apple is about to release its next version of macOS — Mojave — on Monday. MSP360 Backup for macOS has consequently been updated to fully support the latest macOS.
If you’re an avid user of macOS or iOS, it’s safe to bet that some of your workflows revolve around iCloud. Whether it’s some Xcode project or a Keynote presentation, it’s likely that some, if not most, of your data resides in iCloud. The significance of this data could not be overstated and thus it makes sense to consider some sort of backup for it to ensure that you’re not caught off guard if something disastrous happens at Apple’s data centers.
In this post, we explain how to release a license in MSP360 Backup, MSP360 Explorer and MSP360 Drive so that the products could be reinstalled on another computer.
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To ensure business continuity, you need to back up Microsoft 365 along with other services and endpoints. In this guide, we’ll cover how you can optimize your backup strategy around Microsoft 365 with MSP360 Managed Backup.
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One of the most important aspects of a sensible backup strategy is keeping upload volumes under control. With each backup iteration, the same files are being repeatedly uploaded which results in more time-consuming backups. To help mitigate the issue, MSP360 Backup for macOS & Linux now supports block-level backup.
Using MSP360 to secure existing database backups in the cloud requires some additional considerations when designing a backup plan. Unlike MSP360 file, image, or SQL Server backups using the MSP360 SQL Server agent, customers need to be careful to design a backup plan that allows for proper database restores based on database retention requirements and backup types performed. Continue reading
