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Hyper-V Virtual Disks Exclusion in MSP360 Backup 6.1

MSP360 Backup 6.1 features updated Hyper-V support that allows users to exclude virtual disks on a virtual machine within a Hyper-V backup plan. This feature serves as an efficient tool for backup size optimization. The updated Backup Wizard offers a separate step for virtual disk selection.

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MSP Voice Episode 55 – “Commit to CoMITS” with Bob Coppedge

Bob Coppedge is back and he has a new book. You may remember Bob from episode 33, Monthly Recurring Relationships where we talked about his MSP, Simplex-IT, and he also mentioned that he was writing a book about Co-Managed IT.

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Restore Verification in MSP360 Backup 6.1

About the Restore Verification Feature For Image-based backups, MSP360 Backup 6.1 provides the restore verification feature (beta version). When using this feature, MSP360 Backup creates and runs a test restore plan that downloads a part of the backed up

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MSP360 Backup Now Supports AWS Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) Region

MSP360 Backup has been updated to include support for storing data in Amazon’s Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) region. Now, you have the option of creating Amazon S3 Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) region storage buckets from MSP360 Backup.

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Managed Backup Pricing: FAQ for MSPs

Setting prices for managed backup services is a difficult task. There are many factors to weigh and variables to consider, such as whether you should discount for archival storage tiers and whether to include disaster recovery services as part of managed backup pricing.

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CloudFront Support is Being Discontinued

For several years, MSP360 Explorer has offered integration with AWS CloudFront. After careful analysis, MSP360 has decided to discontinue this support. Going forward, customers will be able to work with Amazon CloudFront directly, rather than through MSP360 Explorer, to enjoy

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Is Your Backup and Disaster Recovery Vendor Storage-Agnostic?

Many backup and disaster recovery (BDR) vendors in the market host backups in their own clouds. While this doesn’t sound like a big deal, it can be, especially when considering control, security, and pricing.

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MSP Voice Episode 54 – “What’s in a Brand?” with Dave Davenport

MotherG started out in 2006 as a pure play MSP serving the Chicago area (and now expanding to Milwaukee). Over time they’ve gone through several changes, including rebranding to what they’re known as now, MotherG. Dave shares the story of how they picked the name and what it means to them.

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Geo-Redundancy Clash: Amazon S3, Microsoft Azure and GCP

Want to take advantage of geo-redundant storage but are unsure where to start? This article is for you. Below, we compare AWS replication across regions, Azure storage geo-redundancy and the data replication features available on Google Cloud Storage.

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How to Back Up VMware ESXi Free

In this article, we overview how you can back up VMware ESXI free edition using MSP360 Backup. We will also review the limitations of the VMware ESXI free.

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MSP Voice Episode 53 – “SECURITY” with John Kulas

This week is a special episode where I have a security expert, John Kulas, join me to talk about security. John has spent a lot of time on the security side working for different companies. While he doesn’t work

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