Not only can you choose to backup your server to one of these, you can even perform a cloud-to-cloud backup or a local-to-local backup. Selecting your cloud account gives an eye-opening array of options that CloudBerry Backup talks to: the expected options are there - AWS and Azure - but so too is Amazon Glacier, Google Drive, OpenStack, FTP, Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive, HP Cloud, QNAP, and many others. However, as you perform these steps it is difficult not to be impressed by the rich connectivity and functionality on offer.

Nicely, this theme of simplicity continues across all the actions you can perform, deceptively masking the sheer power and versatility the tool has.At a high level, it is really straightforward: run CloudBerry Backup, activate (when running for the first time), connect your cloud storage provider account(s), then set up a backup plan. It comes across as immediately accessible without any complexity. Launching the product gives a full-screen view with intuitive options to backup, restore, manage your cloud storage, and view your backup and restore history. The installation wizard is a simple step-by-step affair. The software is barely over 30Mb and downloaded quickly, letting me run it without delay. After the trial, it is $US 119.99 to buy as a one-off fee. CloudBerry offers a free fully-functional 15-day trial so you may also investigate it risk-free. I took CloudBerry bare metal backup for a test. Additional tools allow you to treat your cloud storage as if it were a local filesystem using CloudBerry Explorer to access, transfer and manage files, and to mount and access cloud storage like it were a network drive using CloudBerry Drive. Specialised products provide backup for Microsoft Exchange, Oracle, SQL Server, VMware and Hyper-V, and others. The tools span Windows, Linux and OS X, for consumer and enterprise, desktop and server.

Happily, CloudBerry Labs provides a raft of backup tools with client backup, server backup and managed backup. When it comes to malware and other disasters, the best option is to not have these problems at all, but failing that, the best defence is a good, recent, complete backup that you can get your hands on quickly. Knowing this is one thing finding a good tool you can trust, and which works no matter the cloud or clouds of your choice, is another altogether. and to restore the backup with ease and agility, again, without having to actually be there. In years gone by the done thing was to take a tape away from the office, ideally to a secure filing facility, but more often than not, left sitting in the back of someone's car. Fortunately, with the rise of the cloud, it's possible to make up off-site backups without being physically near your data centre. I don't need to tell you the importance of an off-site backup.

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