{"id":28790,"date":"2019-02-15T15:01:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-15T11:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/?p=28790"},"modified":"2023-12-04T17:37:18","modified_gmt":"2023-12-04T13:37:18","slug":"introducing-backup-2-8-for-macos-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/blog\/introducing-backup-2-8-for-macos-linux\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing MSP360 Backup 2.8 for macOS &amp; Linux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This release of MSP360 Backup for macOS &amp; Linux adds the long-awaited Detailed Report feature and also supports the latest changes of the Windows version for continued compatibility between the versions.<!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"table-of-content \">\n\t\t\t\t<p>Table of Contents<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<ul><\/ul>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<h2 id=\"detailed-report\" class=\"anchored\">Detailed Report<\/h2>\n<p>It is often crucial to have the list of files backed up on a specific date (and if a file was failed - to have the reason specified). We've finally added a feature designed specifically for this, Detailed Report. It is configured on the Notifications step of the backup plan wizard.<\/p>\n<p>Here's how the report looks like.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-29169 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Linux-Mac-Detailed-Report.png\" alt=\"Mac Backup Software\" width=\"623\" height=\"590\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Linux-Mac-Detailed-Report.png 623w, https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Linux-Mac-Detailed-Report-300x284.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 623px) 100vw, 623px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"seeding-backup-data-via-hardware-data-transfer\" class=\"anchored\">Seeding Backup Data via the Hardware Data Transfer<\/h2>\n<p>Since this release, MSP360 Backup for macOS &amp; Linux supports hardware data transfer, such as <a href=\"https:\/\/help.msp360.com\/cloudberry-backup\/miscellaneous\/seeding-data\/azure-import\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Azure Import<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/help.msp360.com\/cloudberry-backup\/miscellaneous\/seeding-data\/b2-fireball-seeding\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Backblaze B2 Fireball<\/a>. This is really helpful for initial upload in case of large datasets or low upload speed networks.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/help.msp360.com\/cloudberry-backup\/miscellaneous\/seeding-data\/seeding-data-with-aws-snowball-edge\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">AWS Snowball Edge<\/a> is also supported, although the procedure is slightly different.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"backup-to-smb-cifs-network-shares\" class=\"anchored\">Backup to SMB\/CIFS Network Shares<\/h2>\n<p>We've made a first step in supporting SMB\/CIFS network shares in Backup for macOS &amp; Linux <em>as a storage destination<\/em>.Now Backup will only use the characters that are supported by all common file systems in the folder structure.<\/p>\n<p>The same change has been made in Backup for Windows v 6.0 - so the two versions of the software are staying inter-compatible in terms of being able to restore each other's backups.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Please note that the network share still has to be mounted before a backup plan starts - an automated way to do this is coming in one of the upcoming major releases.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h2 id=\"wasabi-eu-central-1-region\" class=\"anchored\">Wasabi EU-Central-1 Region<\/h2>\n<p>Another update from Wasabi -\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wasabi.com\/press-releases\/wasabi-open-first-european-data-center-amsterdam\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a new DC in Europe (Amsterdam)<\/a> - EU-central-1 region. The new region is now supported in MSP360 Backup for macOS &amp; Linux.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"conclusion\" class=\"anchored\">Conclusion<\/h2>\n<p>There's also a bunch of minor improvements to UX and performance that are too small to list here but still important.<\/p>\n<p>Check out MSP360 Backup <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/blog\/how-to-backup-a-mac-top-5-tips\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">for macOS<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/blog\/how-to-backup-files-in-linux\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Linux<\/a> v 2.8 and share your feedback in the comments section below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This release of MSP360 Backup for macOS &amp; Linux adds the long-awaited Detailed Report feature and also supports the latest changes of the Windows version for continued compatibility between the versions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[877,894,882],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-articles","category-msp360-backup","category-msp360-news"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28790"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56686,"href":"https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28790\/revisions\/56686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.msp360.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}