Sure you can sit there and use Amazon’s calculator, but who wants to do that? If CloudBerry can estimate before uploading, that would be great. One of the problems with using S3 as backup is you really don’t know for sure how much your backup is going to cost. They will also be adding estimates for storage costs. The first is to create a virtual disk so that your S3 backup looks like a drive on your computer. Of course, this is a Beta, and CloudBerry is still working on some new features. You can bring back the latest version of a file, or bring it back to a certain point in time (great feature), or of course you can also choose it manually.
When you run a backup, you get a progress report (of course), and then once it is done you can check the history, either for all backups, or for each backup plan.
You can purge versions of files older than a certain number of days, or only keep the last x versions of a file.įinally, of course, you can choose the schedule that the backup runs on. You also have the option to purge files (if you choose). They have a ton of different options for encryption, which are too many to list here but suffice it to say there are a lot. You can choose to compress or encrypt your files on upload. The next step will be good for privacy-conscious people. Next you can choose whether you want to backup all files or just certain types (or exclude certain types). The first step is a tree where you can choose the directories you want to back up. They use a wizard system to take you step by step. CloudBerry does a good job in helping the user along and pointing them where they need to go. I know some less technical users might have a hard time wrapping their head around this step, but with S3 there isn’t really a way around it (that I can think of).
If you don’t already have an account, they have a link to set one up. When you first install, you will be asked to set up your Amazon account. It has easy to access buttons for doing a Backup and a Restore, and helpfully comes with Backup Plans (what you set up to tell CloudBerry what to backup when) already defined for My Pictures, My Documents, and My Internet Bookmarks. Once you do you are greeted with a welcome screen. Installing CloudBerry Backup is pretty simple. Even if you are nervous about storing your data “in the cloud” with some startup company, in the case of S3, its pretty unlikely that Amazon is going anywhere any time soon.Ĭurrently, CloudBerry Backup is Windows-only, and of course an Amazon S3 account is required. Well, now the team from that product have taken the next step and have a new product in Beta called CloudBerry Online Backup which, not surprisingly, acts as a front-end for Amazon S3. If you are a user of Amazon Web Services’ S3 storage service, you have probably come across CloudBerry Explorer, which is a tool for managing your S3 data.
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