Our team has been laboring day and night for the last couple of months to bring you the next iteration of our flagship product — MSP360 Backup 5.4. This release flaunts a handful of useful novelties and improvements. Read on to get a brief summary of major changes.
Read ArticleIn this article, we are going to overview the basics of the Volume Shadow Copy Service concept so you can better understand underlying backup processing. You will also find a quick VSS troubleshooting guide and a few useful links that can help in most VSS-related issues.
Read ArticleMSP360 Backup uses local index database called repository to minimize the number of requests to S3. Under certain conditions the database can grow. So it is sometimes necessary to move the repository to another disk with more space. Technically the repository is an SQLite database file called CBBac
Read ArticleMicrosoft has recently updated its Azure Storage architecture to increase the size of the maximum allowable block size. The latest editions of MSP360 Backup and MSP360 Explorer for Windows have in turn timely gained support for this novelty.
Read ArticleSometimes it takes a lot of time to understand what the issue with your backup is and what has caused it. This is when diagnostic log helps dramatically. With MSP360 Backup, you can easily send us the diagnostic information.
Read ArticleAmazon 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.
Read ArticlePlease 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
Read ArticleIt 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
Read ArticleAWS 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 accou
Read ArticleStarting 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
Read ArticleMSP360 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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