We’re thrilled to share that MSP360 Backup has been reviewed by PCMag, one of the most trusted names in tech reviews, and has earned an impressive 4.0 (Excellent) rating! This recognition validates our continuous efforts to enhance MSP360 Backup and deliver a top-tier backup solution for MSPs and businesses. Continue reading
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Backup Retention Policies and Versioning in MSP360 Backup
This blog post applies to the legacy backup format only. For latest information about backup formats and contemporary retention settings and stragegies, refer to the MSP360 help documentation
The Retention Policy feature in MSP360 Backup allows you to create and delete copies of your files automatically. This article explains how to configure different options of the retention policy feature in MSP360 Backup.
Canned ACL Policy Support in MSP360 S3 Explorer
We are extending MSP360 S3 Explorer with useful Amazon S3 functionality and in the post, we would like to introduce the Canned ACL policy support. When doing a PUT request you can specify a canned ACL, which grants certain access rights. You don’t need to do an extra request to set an ACL. This makes working with Amazon S3 more efficient. In the previous releases of MSP360, S3 Explorer we ran an extra request for setting ACL of every type. Now we will recognize the type of ACL you want to set and run canned ACL whenever appropriate.
Following are canned ACLs that are supported for REST.
·private—Owner gets.FULL_CONTROL
No one else has access rights (default).
·public-read—Owner gets FULL_CONTROL and the anonymous principal is granted READ access.
If this policy is used on an object, it can be read from a browser with no authentication.
·public-read-write—Owner gets FULL_CONTROL, the anonymous principal is granted READ and WRITE access.
This can be a useful policy to apply to a bucket but is generally not recommended.
·authenticated-read—Owner gets FULL_CONTROL, and any principal authenticated as a registered Amazon S3 user is granted READ access.
·bucket-owner-read—Object Owner gets FULL_CONTROL, Bucket Owner gets READ
This ACL applies only to objects and is equivalent to private when used with PUT Bucket. You use this ACL to let someone other than the bucket owner write content (get full control) in the bucket but still grant the bucket owner read access to the objects.
·bucket-owner-full-control—Object Owner gets FULL_CONTROL, Bucket Owner gets FULL_CONTROL
This ACL applies only to objects and is equivalent to private when used with PUT Bucket. You use this ACL to let someone other than the bucket owner write content (get full control) in the bucket but still grant the bucket owner full rights over the objects.
Note: this post applies to MSP360 Explorer 1.9 and later.
Compare Folders and Delete Files With MSP360 S3 Explorer
As always we are adding features that our customers are requesting. Ever since we first introduced the 'Compare Folders' feature allowing to compare Amazon S3 bucket with local files and folders, users have been telling us that they would want to be able to make sure that the contents of Amazon S3 buckets are identical to local folders. In other words, if a file is deleted locally it should be deleted from Amazon S3 too. Continue reading
Introducing MSP360 Explorer PRO for OpenStack and Rackspace
It has been just a few months since we introduced MSP360 Explorer freeware for OpenStack and now we are proud to announce MSP360 Explorer PRO for OpenStack Object Storage. MSP360 Explorer PRO for OpenStack supports all the features of the freeware version and offers some advanced functionality Continue reading
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How to Find Your AWS Access Key ID and Secret Access Key
In this post, we will explain how to retrieve Amazon Access Key ID and AWS Secret Access Key. These keys allow you to control your AWS account. Continue reading
How to share files in Amazon S3 bucket using MSP360 Explorer
Would you like to be able to share files on the S3 bucket with other Amazon S3 users? MSP360 Explorer can help you to do that. With its External bucket feature sharing buckets and files becoming a breeze.
Explaining Google Cloud Storage Authentication
Today we are going to talk about authentication and authorization with OAuth 2.0 protocol that is used by Google and many other services. By means of it, services and applications like MSP360 Explorer can get access to third-party systems with no need to disclose user logins and passwords.
The information described in this post will prove useful when using any modern web-services. But we will consider the specifics of Google Cloud Storage authentication.
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How to Copy Data to SFTP Servers using MSP360 S3 Explorer
As always we are adding features to make it easier for our customers to use the functionality to offer the most compelling Amazon S3, CloudFront, IAM and Glacier client on Windows platform.
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Presenting MSP360 Settings Storage Service
We are glad to announce that a new service - MSP360 Settings Storage Service - is ready to use! This service allows you to export and import storage accounts across all MSP360 products easily.
How to Rename Files and Folders in an Amazon S3 Bucket Using MSP360 Explorer
Sometimes you need to rename a file or a folder just like you do it on your local computer. Until recently Amazon didn’t offer rename support and the only way to rename an object we to upload the object with a new name and delete the old one.
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How to Configure Billing Alerts for Your AWS Account
Amazon Web Services charge users monthly on a Pay-As-You-Go basis. Sometimes your bills can unexpectedly go high. For example, if you have a running, but not used “t2.medium” Amazon EC2 instance, you will pay additional $51.24/month and excessive provisioned IOPS on EBS volume can lead to an extra $120/month.
In this article we explain how to avoid unexpected bills with AWS CloudWatch Billing Alarms and SNS Notifications. Continue reading
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