We’re excited to announce that image-based backup is now available in our free backup software! Continue reading
Introducing MSP360 Backup 5.2
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
Let’s take a look at these new features. Continue reading
How to Set up Master Password for Amazon S3 Accounts Using MSP360 Explorer
In this post, we would like to introduce our new Master Password feature that protects MSP360 Explorer for Amazon S3 from unauthorized access. Although rarely these days some users still work on shared computers where other users have access to their data. Master Password helps you further protect your Amazon S3 account from unauthorized access.
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.
Continue reading
How to Use Amazon S3 Server Side Encryption with MSP360 Explorer for Amazon S3
Amazon S3 Server Side Encryption (SSE) provides you with the ability to encrypt data stored at rest in Amazon S3. With Amazon S3 SSE, you can encrypt data on upload simply by adding an additional request header when writing the object to Amazon S3. Decryption happens automatically when data is retrieved. MSP360 Explorer For Amazon S3, starting from version 3.0, comes with a full support for Amazon S3 Server Side Encryption.
Continue reading
What’s the Difference Between Cloud Storage, Backup and Sync?
Cloud data technologies have a lot of concepts which are usually misapprehended. Today, we will figure out what’s the difference between cloud storage, cloud backup, and cloud synchronization, and what suits best for common business tasks.
Continue reading
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.
Continue reading
How to Handle Parallel Data Upload With MSP360 S3 Explorer Pro
In this article we will overview how to manage parallel data uploads with MSP360 Explorer PRO for Amazon S3.
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 Create Subaccounts and Share Buckets Using IAM and MSP360 Explorer for Amazon S3
Identity and Access Management (IAM) is a service that allows creating user accounts inside the master account and grants those account a set of permissions. MSP360 Explorer PRO comes with full support for IAM service and you can learn more about that in our previous blog post.
In this blog post, we will look into the very common scenario of creating a subaccount within the master account and granting it permissions to create a bucket. This might be useful if you, for instance, work with freelancers and want them to be able to work with the content in their own bucket.
Continue reading
Requests Prices in Azure, Google and AWS Compared
Besides data volume charge, using cloud storage you pay for data transfer and operation requests. In this post, we will consider these fees for the most popular cloud storage systems: Amazon S3, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud.
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.