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Cloudberry Labs today released an online backup service for Windows Home Server, powered by Amazon S3.

The add-in offers the following features:

• Easy installation and configuration
• Seamlessly integrates with WHS control panel
• Default backup plan is designed to quickly start WHS data backup
• Scheduling capabilities
• Data encryption
• Data retention schedule
• Secure online storage
• Data versioning
• Differential backup
• The ability to restore to a particular date
• Backup verification

Coming Soon

• Virtual Disk – expose Amazon S3 storage as a local disk on your computer
• Storage costs estimates
• Web interface access your backup storage everywhere
• FTP support
• Alerting notifications
• Azure Blob Storage support
• Sun Cloud Storage Service support

I’m not a big fan of Amazon S3 services personally as the cost model varies depending on the amount of data you have to backup, so it’s hard to know how much you’ll be charged each month. That said, with JungleDisk pulling their WHS backup add-in, and HP de-coupling theirs from the MediaSmart Server software, it’s worth checking Cloudberry out.

The service is advertised as free for bloggers, non-profit and education-related users. Others have a one-time $29 charge for a year. You also have to pay Amazon S3 storage and transfer fees. Amazon storage fees start at $.15/months per GB of data. Transfer fees start at $.10 per GB of data transferred.

More Info: Cloudberry Backup for Windows Home Server