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Explaining OAuth 2 and Google Cloud Storage Authentication

Explaining Google Cloud Storage Authentication

Explaining Google Cloud Storage Authentication

Today we are going to talk about authentication and authorization with OAuth 2.0 protocol that is used by Google and many other services. By means of it, services and applications like MSP360 Explorer can get access to third-party systems with no need to disclose user logins and passwords.
The information described in this post will prove useful when using any modern web-services. But we will consider the specifics of Google Cloud Storage authentication.
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How to Rename Files and Folders in an Amazon S3 Bucket Using MSP360 Explorer

How to Rename Files and Folders in an Amazon S3 Bucket Using MSP360 Explorer

Sometimes you need to rename a file or a folder just like you do it on your local computer. Until recently Amazon didn’t offer rename support and the only way to rename an object we to upload the object with a new name and delete the old one.
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How to Configure Billing Alerts for Your AWS Account

How to Configure Billing Alerts for Your AWS Account

Amazon Web Services charge users monthly on a Pay-As-You-Go basis. Sometimes your bills can unexpectedly go high.  For example, if you have a running, but not used  “t2.medium” Amazon EC2 instance, you will pay additional $51.24/month and excessive provisioned IOPS on EBS volume can lead to an extra $120/month.

In this article we explain how to avoid unexpected bills with AWS CloudWatch Billing Alarms and SNS Notifications. Continue reading

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Page Blobs Support in MSP360 Explorer for Windows Azure

Page Blobs Support in MSP360 Explorer for Windows Azure

MSP360 Explorer for Microsoft Azure now supports Page Blobs. Until the latest update, MSP360 Explorer could only work with Block blobs - one of two blob types in Azure Blob Storage. Now when MSP360 Explorer supports Page blobs our customers can easily manage their data in Page blobs as well as those in Block blobs.

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Email Notifications for Amazon S3 RRS: How to Setup Lost Object Notification and Re-Upload to the Cloud

Email Notifications for Amazon S3 RRS: How to Setup Lost Object Notification and Re-Upload to the Cloud

Amazon S3 Reduced Redundancy Storage (RRS) is a storage class within Amazon S3 that costs 30% less than Amazon S3 Standard Storage, but with lower durability: 99.99% (RRS) vs 99.999999999% (S3 Standard). That means AWS can lose 1 from 10 000 files during one year. Continue reading

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Scheduling Full Backup in MSP360 Backup

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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How to Manage Amazon S3 Versioning With CloudBerry Explorer

How to Manage Amazon S3 Versioning With CloudBerry Explorer

Versioning is an exciting feature that makes Amazon S3 allow you to create versions of objects instead of overwriting them and keep them on S3. Versioning support dramatically increases a range of Amazon S3 of possible applications and it is only limited by your imagination. It is currently supported across all Amazon S3 regions.

CloudBerry Explorer comes with support for Amazon S3 bucket versioning. You can turn on versioning aware mode, turn on versioning for specific buckets and perform common file operations on versions. This article will give you some ideas on how to get started. Continue reading