CLOUDBERRY BACKUP LINUX SOFTWARE

The price of this product isn’t a huge factor, because depending on how much data you have the bigger cost is going to be the cloud storage bill in providing a safe place for it. What’s important to realise is that this service isn’t meant to sync machines, it is designed to be a backup, and entirely focused on that one objective. If a real-time backup slows down the system, then hourly ones are a good alternative that should reduce the overhead. As a policy, it might be best to create a backup that runs manually at first and then edit it to real-time going forwards. Once over that hurdle, the backup process is much slicker, as it only moves the new files out to the storage when it runs.

Typically, when you first create a multi-gigabyte backup, it will run for some considerable time to secure all the files, possibly overnight. How fast this works in both backing up and restoring is mostly dependent on the broadband bandwidth available and that available at the target cloud storage facility. With CloudBerry Backup you can choose exactly where your files are stored in the cloud (Image Credit: CloudBerry Labs) Performance Once you’ve created a few backup plans, it becomes very straightforward, and you can easily edit existing ones if they need to be tweaked. However, if you want this level of functionality with all the options, then you will need to answer numerous questions to create exactly the backup you need. We’ve also seen other complain that CloudBerry is complex, which by necessity it is in places. We would have liked to have seen a companion mobile app, although if you use a mobile and sync into the cloud, you can automate the movement of that elsewhere using this software. But frankly, it is hard to come up with anything here. Normally, at this point of the review, we’d mention that product ‘B’, does something that CloudBerry doesn’t or there is an obvious missing feature or option.

CLOUDBERRY BACKUP LINUX SOFTWARE

The software allows file backups to be scheduled, done in real-time or manually executed (Image Credit: CloudBerry Labs)įile backups can be scheduled, real-time or manually executed, and you can pause the backup for periods if that suits you.Īnd, these are just the options for file backups, as you can also image the entire machine, and CloudBerry will create a USB key that can be used to restore the computer if the internal storage is destroyed or stolen. Should you be working collaboratively or have files open when the backup runs, you can force VSS (Volume Shadow Copy Service) to handle that scenario for you.īackups can have a global retention policy or a per-backup one, with the option never to delete files irrespective of what happens to them on the computer, or after a grace period defined by you. Or, they can go into an encrypted volume that can only be accessed through CloudBerry, and this option also supports file versioning and will also carry NTFS permissions into the backup. The files backed up can either be placed as is, on the server in a specific folder where they can be accessed freely. In short, unless you wrote your own Cloud storage facility, CloudBerry will probably work with the one you are currently using.

These aren’t all the cloud choices, just the ones it puts at the top of the list.ĬloudBerry supports another 52 services currently, including Wasabi, Google Drive, Azure Files, FTP, Cisco, HP Cloud, Oracle Cloud and Rackspace, to mention just a few. Hybrid is the smart choice if you have an external drive or NAS, as you have a single backup that makes two copies, one being on the cloud.ĭestinations for the backup can be a local file system or the popular choices of Amazon S3, Amazon Glacier, Azure, Backblaze B2, Google Cloud or OpenStack. Once you’ve chosen, you then get to decide is it a local or cloud backup, or a hybrid combination. The first choice it presents you is what type of backup you want, with the options (if you have the licenses) to backup Files, Image-Based, MS SQL Server or MS Exchange. CloudBerry Backup's interface is clean and easy to use (Image Credit: CloudBerry Labs) Featuresĭetailing the features of CloudBerry backup is no easy task, as it slices and dices the job of securing files in so many ways.

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