If you're a Mac user, you probably know that Macs have their own backup system called Time Machine. This tool supports all user backup needs except cloud backup. In this post, we will explain how to use Time Machine to backup for Mac.
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Besides data volume charge, using cloud storage you pay for data transfer and operation requests. In this post, we will consider these fees for the most popular cloud storage systems: Amazon S3, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud.
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In this post, we will figure out what is rotating drives backup scenario and how to use it with MSP360 Backup.
With MSP360 Backup software, you can exclude files and folders while performing both image-based backup and recovery. In this blog post, you can find the detailed step-by-step guides on using this feature.
MSP360 Backup software comes with a feature allowing to resize NTFS (New Technology File System) partitions while restoring the machine from image-based backup. With this feature, you can maintain the desired volume size regardless of how much space your backup takes. In this blog post, we provide a detailed step-by-step guide on how to resize the partition.
With MSP360 Backup you can recover the server as a cloud virtual machine. Here’s a guide on full server recovery to the Microsoft Azure VM service.
Cloud users typically choose a multi-vendor approach for their data backup and storage tasks. Using different solutions leads to more flexibility and often allows to cut overall expenditures. Azure, AWS, and Google are among the world's top providers of cloud storage services, so it is important to know about their differences in order to choose the right vendor for each particular need.
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Cloud world standards constantly become more demanding and high upload speed becomes a must, especially in business analytics and other real-time data processing areas. Being the world's leading provider of cloud solutions, Amazon Web Services intends to meet this challenge. So, a feature ensuring faster data transfer called Amazon S3 Transfer Acceleration was added to Amazon S3.
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To continue our conversation about authentication and authorization, we took a decision to consider OpenStack Keystone. This technology allows to make sure of the user’s identity and enhance the security of requests sent to OpenStack Services API without making outside access more complicated.
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We are going to consider two popular Google backup solutions: Google Drive and Google Cloud. Are they the same? No, of course not: there are obvious differences in the operating principles and opportunities. To understand the point, let’s briefly review their features.
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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.
The main point is that you need a script for the MySQL database backup that MSP360 Backup will run before uploading the backup to the cloud. Below there is a step-by-step guide for the MySQL backup with MSP360 Backup.
