Cloudberry Labs have announced a new version of online backup add-in, Cloudberry Backup for Windows Home Server v1.7. The new release adds improved scheduling options and adds the ability to backup your server to Microsoft’s Azure Blob Storage service instead of Amazon S3.
Additional backup configuration features in the update allow the restriction of files to be backed up from a user configurable date (if you wish to restrict backup to newer files). Backups can now also be scheduled by the hour. Other improvements include the ability to backup your server to other Amazon S3 users’ accounts as well as the ability to backup network drives.
What’s new in CloudBerry Backup 1.7
Note: this post applies to CloudBerry Backup 1.7 and later.
CloudBerry S3 Backup is a powerful Windows backup and restore that automate backup and restore processes to Amazon S3 cloud storage.
With the release 1.7 of CloudBerry Backup we are introducing more flexible scheduling options, an ability to backup files only since a certain date and Azure storage option support.
First, we have integrated Azure Blob Storage as another storage option in CloudBerry Backup in addition to Amazon S3. The users can now back up their data to their Azure accounts directly.
Second, ability to backup files since a certain date provides more flexibility for those who want to copy only the newer files to their backup storage. This option is available in the backup wizard.
Third, with the newer release we have added an ability to configure backup schedule down to hours. In the previous releases you were limited to configure scheduled backup to days.
Forth, we are introducing an option to back up to external buckets. This allows to back up data to other users account while only having a free AWS account. In other words the owner of the account can provide other users with the rights to read/ write data to a certain bucket and those users can back up their data not having to deal with the details of Amazon account setup and payments.
Finally, we improved a support for backing up network locations. In the previous release we introduced an option to backup network shares. In release 1.7 we extended it with network drives support. Although under the hood CloudBerry Backup resolves network drives to network shares for the end user the whole process is absolutely transparent.
Last, but not least we have also made it possible to run CloudBerry Backup in unattended mode even when run interactively using the console. In the earlier releases when you run the backup using the console you could not close the console or log off and you had to wait before the backup finishes. This limitation is now removed and you can run the backup plan, close the console and even log off from the computer and make sure backup plan will keep running.
Most of the enhancements in this release were implemented based on the user feedback. We would like to thank you our user community for helping us improve the product and please keep the feedback coming!
We are going to blog about each of the new feature is greater details. Stay tuned.
As always we would be happy to hear your feedback and you are welcome to post a comment.
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CloudBerry Backup is a Windows program that leverages Amazon S3 storage. You can download it at http://backup.cloudberrylab.com/ . It comes with onetime fee of $29.99 (US) per copy.
CloudBerry Backup for WHS is a Windows Home Server add-in that leverages Amazon S3 storage. You can download it at http://whs.cloudberrylab.com/ . It comes with onetime fee of $29.99 (US) per copy.
CloudBerry Backup Server Edition. is a Windows program designed to run in server environment that leverages Amazon S3 storage. You can download it at http://server.cloudberrylab.com/ . It comes with onetime fee of $59.99 (US) per copy.
