By default, Amazon S3 stores multiple copies of your data inside different facilities within one AWS Region. In case of region-level disaster like tornado, flood or earthquake all these facilities will experience outage and despite all precautions your crucial data may be lost. Consequences are catastrophic, especially in case of user-generated content that can’t be easily reproduced.
In this article, we compare Amazon S3 and Amazon Drive (previously Amazon Cloud Drive) — a standalone storage service designed by AWS. Continue reading
MSP360 Backup is a powerful cross-platform solution that enables you to automate backup and restore processes to various cloud storage services.
In the latest release, we are introducing an option to encrypt file and folder names in the cloud storage for enhanced security. To enable this option, simply select the Encrypt filenames checkbox on the Encryption and Compression step of the Backup Wizard. Continue reading
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
In this blog post, we will demonstrate how to grant users access to a specific folder in a bucket.
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MSP360 Explorer for Amazon S3 is a freeware product that helps managing Amazon S3 storage. This article explains how to use its IAM Policy Wizard. The wizard allows you to create a number of users, and grant them a set of common permissions to a number of buckets and generate Login Profiles. Continue reading
Azure Cool Blob Storage is one of the storage tiers offered by Microsoft Azure. This article provides an overview of Microsoft Azure Cool Blob Storage and a short guide on how to start using it 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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Even though we are spending a lot of time to make sure the product is stable and robust, issues come up every so often. Sometimes software behaves unexpectedly and erroneously and MSP360 Explorer for Amazon S3 is not an exception. But we believe a hallmark of the great software company is not that the product is error-free, but the way how quickly the support team can react on the issue and offer a solution. Continue reading
In this article we explain how to use the Resumable Upload feature in MSP360 Explorer for Google Storage.
In this blog post, we will demonstrate an optimization that we added to our "Sync Folders" feature that allows to sync Amazon S3 bucket with local folders. In the previous version of MSP360 S3 Explorer we do request header for each file on s3 to get original date modified. It used to make the user pay extra money to Amazon because of the number of requests (equals to the number of files on s3). If you let’s say have 70 000 files on S3 that you want to sync, every time sync feature runs it would run ahead request 70 000 times.
In version 2.0 we are adding an option "Compare Content", which is ON by default. Continue reading
