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MSP360 Drive Supports Keystone Auth for OpenStack Storage
MSP360 Drive maps cloud storage as a network drive to your computer and allows to access cloud storage directly from Windows Explorer interface. MSP360 Drive supports over 20 different cloud storage services including Amazon S3, Windows Azure. Continue reading
Upload to Amazon Glacier using PowerShell
MSP360 Explorer PowerShell snippets for Amazon Glacier
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.
MSP360 S3 Explorer has supported Glacier for quite some time now. We introduced the Glacier support in September, followed by supporting encryption and compression and finally Amazon S3 to Glacier archiving.
Since the very first release, MSP360 Explorer featured PowerShell extension to automate Amazon S3 and CloudFront tasks. The latest release of MSP360 Explorer comes with a PowerShell extension that helps users automate Glacier tasks and integrate it with other PowerShell routines. The extension includes commands such as create, delete vaults, copy and move data to Glacier, create Inventory and Retrieval jobs and create Lifecycle policies.
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How to Start Using MSP360 Backup with Microsoft Azure
This post explains how to sign up for Microsoft Azure account and configure MSP360 Backup to be used with Microsoft Azure.
MSP360 Drive maps Cloud Storage as a Local Disk
MSP360 Drive is a product that allows to easily map cloud storage as a local disk and access cloud data directly from the Windows Explorer interface. In the full version, MSP360 Drive lets users run both read and write operations to storage accounts just like to any other disks in the system.
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How to Configure CloudBerry Backup to Sync to the Root of Bucket
CloudBerry Backup is a powerful Windows program that automates backup and restore processes to Amazon S3 and over 15 other storages.
One of the questions we repeatedly get from our customers is "How do I configure Backup Server Edition to Sync/Backup a select directory to the ROOT of a bucket?" Continue reading
Controlling Storage Costs With MSP360 Backup
MSP360 S3 Backup is a powerful Windows program that automate backup and restore processes to Amazon S3 cloud storage.
In the latest release we are introducing an option to estimate cloud storage costs. You can set up cost estimates per the storage account on the account configuration dialog. You can also setup the limit in GB and in $ that when reached will stop the backup. The software will automatically calculate the costs based on the current storage price offered by the storage provider. Currently Amazon S3 charge 0.125/GB per month. The software will also send an alert to the users when the storage is about to reach the limit.
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Report on Backup Status to Windows Event Log with CloudBerry Backup
CloudBerrry Backup comes with an option to write Events on backup completion (success and failure) to the Windows Event log. This feature makes it easier to deploy MSP360 Backup along with the popular monitoring and management systems such as Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM), HP OpenView, BMC Patrol, Quest Foglight and a few others that come with a capability to process Windows Event Log and apply certain common rules. Continue reading
MSP360 Backup: Store Backup Plan Configuration on the Cloud
MSP360 S3 Backup is a powerful Windows program that automates backup and restore processes to Amazon S3 cloud storage.
In the newer release we are introducing an option to store the backup plan configuration in the cloud. This is useful in the recovery scenario when you want to get your backup plans configuration back after the failure. in the previous releases you had to re-create backup plans manually.
It is also now possible to export backup plan configuration and import it on other machines so that the backup plans are consistent across your organization. Continue reading
MSP360 Explorer: Import/Export Program Settings
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, and IAM client on Windows platform.
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How to Restore Only Newer Files With MSP360 Backup
MSP360 Backup is a powerful Windows program that automates backup and restoration processes to Amazon S3 cloud storage.
Sometimes you may want to restore the newer version of the file on the target computer over the existing (Older) version. This is particularly important in the Sync scenario, where you want to have your target folder look exactly as the source. In the previous version of MSP360 Backup, that would not be possible and you could just force overwrite every file in regardless of the modification date. This would cause a lot of unnecessary restore operations.
In the newer release, we have added the Restore only new files option so that only the files with newer modification date could be restored. This option is available on the Restore Wizard, Destination step. Continue reading
MSP360 Backup Web Access Updated
We have been running MSP360 Backup Web Access for quite some time and it has become a fairly popular way to access backup storage from all over the places where you don't have access to the local backup client. We have recently updated the Web Access to make it cleaner and easier to use.
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