Introducing Multipart Upload and Large Object support in MSP360 Backup

Please note that this article has been archived as it contains outdated information. Multipart Upload is now supported across all our products. To learn more about Advanced options in MSP360 Backup, please refer to this help article.

MSP360 Backup for Amazon S3 is a powerful Windows program that automates backup and restore processes to Amazon S3 cloud storage.A few weeks ago we introduced Multipart Upload and Large Object support for MSP360 Explorer.  With this release we are introducing support for Multi-Part Upload and Large objects support in MSP360 Backup.

This exciting new feature allows you to break large files into smaller parts (chunks) and upload them in any sequence.  We think that Multi-Part Upload is most important enhancement to Amazon S3 service this year. (The second important enhancement has been the versioning support).

With Multipart Upload you can:

1. Make data upload more reliable, we need to re-upload only failed chunks, not the whole file.
2. Make data upload faster by breaking down the files into chunks we can upload the in multiple thread efficiently utilizing available network bandwidth
3. Pause and resume uploads. As always we would be happy to hear your feedback and you are welcome to post a comment.

Large Object support allows you to upload and store the objects up to 5TB in size. Multipart Upload and Large Object support work transparently to the users as a part of the Simple Mode. In other words you can now reliably upload large objects to Amazon S3 storage and access them with other tools.

If you need to modify the size of the chunk go to Tools | Options | Advanced.

What’s Next?

We are also going to deprecate Advanced Mode that uses MSP360 Chunking mechanism. What’s more we will also deprecate MSP360 Versioning support and replace it with Amazon S3 native Versioning.  We will keep both though for backward compatibility. This way we will try to fulfill our strategy to offer the product that doesn’t lock in the users to any specific data format and / or tool. You will always be able to retrieve your data using other Amazon S3 clients.

Note: this post applies to MSP360 Backup 1.9 and later.

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Alexander is the director of marketing at MSP360 and has been an important member of the company since its inception. He is an expert in IT marketing and has extensive knowledge of cloud storage services. Alexander cooperates with cloud vendors, MSPs, VARs and communicates the market needs and trends to our team.

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