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MSP360 Backup with AWS IAM Users
MSP360 Backup and MSP360 Explorer provide users with an ability to leverage the Amazon Identity and Access Management (IAM) service that allows you to create multiple users for one AWS account and specify access rights for each user or the set of users. Continue reading
How to Set Up Custom Credentials for Network Locations in MSP360 Backup
In this article we will overview how to add network credentials for network shares to be used for backup in MSP360 Backup.
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How to backup to FTP/SFTP with MSP360 Backup
Backup Retention Policies and Versioning in MSP360 Backup
This blog post applies to the legacy backup format only. For latest information about backup formats and contemporary retention settings and stragegies, refer to the MSP360 help documentation
The Retention Policy feature in MSP360 Backup allows you to create and delete copies of your files automatically. This article explains how to configure different options of the retention policy feature in MSP360 Backup.
Presenting MSP360 Settings Storage Service
We are glad to announce that a new service - MSP360 Settings Storage Service - is ready to use! This service allows you to export and import storage accounts across all MSP360 products easily.
Scheduling Full Backup in MSP360 Backup
MSP360 Backup features block-level backup that allows uploading of changed parts of files instead of whole files. This decreases the processing time, time for data upload, and storage space. If you enable block-level backup in MSP360 Backup, the backup plan wizard will suggest you set up an automatic running of a full backup.
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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Please note that this article has been archived as it contains outdated information.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. Continue reading
Introducing MSP360 Backup for Mac 1.4
We'd like to inform that the newer version of MSP360 Backup for Mac OS comes with some graphical enhancements. Now you can view plan progress and plans history that help monitoring your backups and restores. Continue reading
Creating a Bootable ISO Image with MSP360 Backup
The latest release of MSP360 Backup for Windows Server allows you to create a bootable ISO image that you can further use for bare-metal recovery, i.e. on a machine with no operating system installed. Continue reading
Introducing MSP360 Backup for Mac OS 1.3
The new version of MSP360 Backup for Mac OS comes with a set of new features and enhancements. Our product now supports Microsoft Azure cloud storage, AWS EU Frankfurt region and provides the ability to set Amazon Standard-IA class to the files during the backup process. Additionally, we provide a Free version for personal, non-business use! Continue reading
Introducing MSP360 Backup for Mac OS and Linux OS Freeware Version
Freeware versions of MSP360 Backup for Mac OS cloud backup and Linux cloud backup are now available! They come with most of the features that you can find in the commercial license version of our product such as flexible schedule options and retention policies as well as a whole variety of cloud storage providers. Continue reading