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Automating Amazon S3 Backup on Windows with CloudBerry S3 Backup

This post is cour­tesy of Nadya

Cloud­Berry S3 Bac­kup is a Win­dows appli­ca­tion that auto­ma­tes bac­kup and res­tore pro­ces­ses to Ama­zon S3 secure cloud sto­rage.  Cloud­Berry S3 Bac­kup pro­vi­des a power­ful Bac­kup and Res­tore pro­gram desig­ned to leve­rage Ama­zon S3storage to make your disas­ter reco­very plan sim­ple, relia­ble, and affor­da­ble.
Disas­ter reco­very plan­ning is often times an afterthought that comes to light when disas­ter stri­kes.
Very sel­dom do com­pa­nies fully reco­ver from loss of cri­ti­cal data which could lead to loss of business.

What is Ama­zon S3

To use Cloud­Berry S3 Bac­kup you should create your Ama­zon S3 account. Ama­zon S3 is unli­mi­ted secure inter­net sto­rage that leve­ra­ges Ama­zon infras­truc­ture.  Ama­zon S3 is pri­ma­rily desig­ned for soft­ware deve­lo­pers who want to take advan­tage of sca­la­ble inter­net sto­rage in their appli­ca­tions. Howe­ver, the pro­ducts like Cloud­Berry S3 Bac­kup unleash the power of Ama­zon S3 and make it avai­la­ble for less sophis­ti­ca­ted consumers.

There are no sign-up or mini­mum fees. You only pay for what you use. In many cases your monthly checks will be less than a dollar! The costs start at $0.15 per GB of data sto­rage a month and ONLY (!) $0.03 per GB of data trans­fer until June, 30 2009.  The data trans­fer costs will return to the nor­mal $0.1 per GB as of July, 1 2009. So hurry up to do the ini­tial backup!

Check here for more info on Ama­zon S3 pricing.

With Cloud­Berry S3 Bac­kup you can

• Setup your bac­kup pro­cess in a cou­ple of minutes
• Strong data encryp­tion pro­tects your data from unautho­ri­zed access
• Data com­pres­sion allows you to lower your Ama­zon S3 sto­rage and trans­fer costs
• Sche­du­ling capa­bi­li­ties auto­mate the bac­kup process
• Bac­kups are avai­la­ble for reco­very 24/7
• Intui­tive inter­face pro­vi­des easy file and fol­der selec­tion capabilities
• No pro­prie­tary sto­rage for­mat. You can access your files using other Ama­zon S3 tools.
• Con­trol band­width uti­li­za­tion to do other tasks online when bac­kup is running
• Sup­port mul­ti­ple sto­rage clouds in the future such as Mic­ro­soft Azure, Sun Cloud Sto­rage Service

This is a long list of Cloud­Berry S3 Bac­kup features.

• Easy ins­ta­lla­tion and configuration
• Sche­du­ling capabilities
• Data encryp­tion
• Data reten­tion schedule
• Secure online storage
• Bac­kup verification
• Aler­ting notifications
• Indi­ca­tion for successful/failed bac­kup status
• The abi­lity to res­tore to a par­ti­cu­lar date
• Bac­kup open files
• Band­width throttling
• Sup­port SSL for secure data connection
• Mini­mize to tray
• Built-in feed­back form

Conc­lu­sion

Cloud­Berry S3 Bac­kup is a fully func­tio­nal bac­kup pro­duct that can help com­pu­ter users ran­ging from pri­vate indi­vi­duals to small and mid size busi­ness leve­rage Ama­zon S3 secure and relia­ble Cloud sto­rage to auto­mate data bac­kup and res­tore pro­ces­ses.  If you are con­si­de­ring using Ama­zon S3 for data bac­kup pur­po­ses it is a good rea­son to start now and down­load Cloud­Berry S3 Bac­kup from Cloud­Berry Lab web­site at http://cloudberrydrive.com/