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“Favorites” Feature in MSP360 Explorer for Amazon S3

“Favorites” Feature in MSP360 Explorer for Amazon S3

This article explains how to use a feature of MSP360 Explorer for Amazon S3 that makes it easier to work with the folders and buckets you use on a regular basis. The feature is called Favorites and it reminds the Favorites feature in the web browsers. You can select a certain bucket (with the path) and a certain folder to create a Favorites entry and then quickly navigate to it when needed. This is especially useful when you have many accounts with many buckets.

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Search Across Your Amazon S3 Buckets with MSP360 Explorer Pro

Search Across Your Amazon S3 Buckets with MSP360 Explorer Pro

In MSP360 we are always thinking about how to bring more value to our users. Since we use Amazon S3 heavily ourselves it is easy sometimes to identify things that will make MSP360 Explorer for Amazon S3 a better tool and the ability to Search for specific files is one of them.

How Search works

Nothing can be simpler: just click Ctrl+F on your keyboard or the lens icon next to the path bar:

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Then type a text into the search text box and click enter. You will get the results that match your pattern:

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You can also use wildcard characters such as (*):

Wildcard characters

Or slightly more complex:

complex characters

We don’t search across the contents of your files. We can only search across key names (file names). Please also note that Search is only available in our PRO edition.

Note: this post applies to MSP360 Explorer 1.7PRO and later.

Google Cloud Storage Classes Explained

Google Cloud Storage Classes Overview: Standard vs Nearline vs Coldline

Google Cloud Storage Classes Overview: Standard vs Nearline vs Coldline

Google Cloud Storage has a number of classes to choose from. All of them guarantee 99.999999999% durability, have universal API, unlimited capacity, and almost zero latency—the download starts within milliseconds. Still, they vary in price and usage terms. In this post, we will explain Google Cloud Storage classes and find the best one that suits your needs. Continue reading

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Using AWS GovCloud with MSP360 Backup

Using AWS GovCloud with MSP360 Backup

AWS GovCloud is a specially designed U.S governmental region inside Amazon Web Services. Government organizations and their contractors are only allowed to use GovCloud as their cloud storage. MSP360 Backup fully supports data transfers to that region. Here's a guide on how to add AWS GovCloud account to MSP360 backup

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Backup Local Storage with Encryption, Compression, Versioning & more

Backup Local Storage with Encryption, Compression, Versioning & more

Starting from version 2.5, MSP360 Backup comes with an ability to back up data to local storage such as local disks, network shares, and NAS devices. While the previous version had some basic support for local backup, MSP360 Backup v. 2.5 and later allows users to take advantage of all product functionality available for cloud backup including block-level backup, data encryption, data compression, and data versioning. Continue reading

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How to Back Up Mac or Linux to Amazon Glacier

How to Back Up Mac or Linux to Amazon Glacier

MSP360 Backup for macOS & Linux releases two patches - 2.8.1 and 2.8.3 - to keep up with Amazon S3 updates.
Following the best practices of AWS, MSP360 Backup leverages S3 Glacier storage class and S3 Glacier Deep Archive storage class instead of Amazon Glacier (which is said to be deprecated soon).
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