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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
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
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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Item-Level Restore for Exchange 2010 with MSP360 Backup
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
How to Use Google Cloud Storage with MSP360 Backup
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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Introducing MSP360 Backup 5.2
The new MSP360 Backup 5.2 has been released! We’ve added the following features:
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- 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
Let’s take a look at these new features. Continue reading
How to Use Time Machine to Backup for Mac
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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Your Computer Clocks Are Not Synchronized Error
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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MSP360 Backup: Understanding Email Notification Report
MSP360 provides backup solutions with email notification service. Email notification reports make it possible to stay informed about the state of your backup and, thus, have full control over your backup. Continue reading
How to Use Rotating Drives Strategy with MSP360 Backup
In this post, we will figure out what is rotating drives backup scenario and how to use it with MSP360 Backup.
MSP360 Backup: Introducing Block-Level Backup for Large Files
Please note that this article has been archived.You might want to check out our newer article about block-level backup.
MSP360 Backup is a powerful Windows program that automates backup and restore processes to the cloud storage.
As always we are adding features to make it easier for our customers to use the functionality and the block-level backup has always been one of the sought after features. With the MSP360 Backup release 2.3 we are adding the functionality that will back up only the modified blocks of the files to the cloud storage making the overall backup process faster and more efficient. Block-level backup is useful if you want to copy large files such as SQL Server Backup files, MS Exchange Database, Outlook PST files and virtual machine images. Continue reading
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