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Amazon has introduced a handful of changes to their S3 & Glacier
cloud storage tiers. To wit, pricing policy has been appreciably altered, and the selection of available retrieval options for Glacier—expanded. Let’s take a closer look at the novelties.
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Please note that MSP360 Backup supports AWS Snowball Edge device only, the use of AWS Snowball device is deprecated.

While MSP360 backup handles rather large volumes of data effortlessly, some concerns still remain with regard to the feasibility of utilizing the available internet connection for such purposes. Naturally, dozens of terabytes (even less) of data would take forever to upload even with a swift bandwidth, let alone a subpar connection. Besides, many Internet providers impose data caps on their users which could clearly impede any attempt at uploading data of volumes upwards of a certain number of terabytes. Thus, it may seem more appropriate to inspect other solutions to this conundrum.
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It is sometimes necessary to employ another computer to restore your data from the same cloud storage. Naturally, the computer you're trying to restore your files on must be properly set up. Elsewise, you might face a situation in which some of your files are invisible.  There are 2 ways to ensure that all files are displayed: specify the correct prefix and sync repository.
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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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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

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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MSP360 Backup has always been able to save and recover Microsoft Exchange Server data, but it previously lacked the ability to restore individual items, such as emails or calendars.

Now, we are glad to announce that Microsoft Exchange Item-level Restore is available for MS Exchange 2010 in MSP360 Backup 5.2! Continue reading

This post explains how to sign up for Google Cloud Storage, find your access keys and use them to connect MSP360 Backup with your Google Cloud Storage account.
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The new MSP360 Backup 5.2 has been released! We’ve added the following features:

• • Item-level recovery for Microsoft Exchange
  • Azure VM restore using temporary instance
  • Synthetic full backup

• Force full backup option
• Pause and resume backup and restore plans

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One of the common errors that Amazon S3 users come across is "The difference between the requested time and the current time is too large" or "Your computer clocks are not synchronized". This error often occurs when your computer clock is not synchronized properly. Amazon returns an error code if the request doesn't come in a certain time interval.
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