Note: This post applies to MSP360 Explorer for OpenStack 1.5 and later
New versions of OpenStack Keystone API currently tend to support only JSON format for their requests, deprecating the XML format. So now MSP360 Explorer for OpenStack fully supports JSON format that allows you to use newer versions of Keystone API.
In this post, we explain how to recover your server to Amazon EC2. This will be helpful in disaster recovery cases when you don’t have spare hardware but need to restore server nonetheless. Continue reading
This article refers to MSP360 Backup 4.5 and later.
We are glad to announce that starting from MSP360 Backup 4.5 release, we have added the ability to back up and restore NTFS permissions!
In this post, we provide a step-by-step instruction on how to configure Amazon VMimport Role in order to import virtual machine images from your existing environment to Amazon EC2 instances. Continue reading
On-Demand I/O is the Google Cloud Storage Nearline feature that allows you to speed up information retrieval. If you’re not satisfied with the standard reading throughput of 4MB/s per 1TB of stored data you can switch it on to boost the download speed. The typical use case for On-Demand I/O is a disaster recovery, when you need to restore some crucial data as soon as possible.
The latest release of MSP360 Explorer provides a user interface to Oracle Storage Cloud Archive Service. Using our product, you can easily move your data across your local storage and Oracle Archive storage as well as manage files and folders in the cloud just the same way you do it on your local computer. Continue reading
The latest release of MSP360 Backup for Amazon S3 supports a new Amazon S3 storage class: Standard - Infrequent Access (Standard-IA). Continue reading
This post applies to MSP360 Explorer 4.3 and later.
The latest release of MSP360 Explorer supports a new Amazon S3 storage class: Standard - Infrequent Access (Standard-IA). Continue reading
Google Nearline Storage is a low-cost storage service that can be used for data archiving, online backup, and cloud disaster recovery. Data is available instantly, not within hours or days. This makes Nearline perfectly suitable for the storage of large amounts of infrequently accessed data which, nevertheless, can be accessed and retrieved quickly whenever necessary.
In other words, Google Nearline is a perfect place to store your backups. However, bear in mind, that Google Nearline is one of the three different storage classes within Google Cloud Storage. In this article, we will show how to set up backup to Google Nearline with MSP360 Backup
A freeware version of MSP360 Backup is now available! It comes 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
In this blog post, we provide instructions on how to recover individual files from the image-based backup. It is important to note that MSP360 Backup can restore selected files from the cloud, and there is no need to recover the whole image. Thus MSP360 Backup software significantly reduces restore time and cuts on outgoing transfer costs.
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This article refers to MSP360 Explorer for Windows Azure 2.4 and later.
Microsoft has recently announced a new feature to Azure Storage - a new blob type called Append Blob. According to Microsoft, it is optimized for fast append operations and supports multiple clients writing to the same blob without any need for synchronization.
