![]() There are in facts two main product family: backup solutions, as we said, and CloudBerry Explorer, which you can use to sort through the files you store in the cloud. Their website point you in two different directions. ![]() First impressionĪt first, we looked at CloudBerry thinking they were a full-fledged backup service, but they “just” offers you the means for the backup: you have to provide your storage solution, whatever it is (your own server, Amazon S3, Microsoft Azure, Rackspace, what have you). In this review, we suggest you CloudBerry Lab, a US-based company which developed two different but similar products to keep your data safe. Solutions abound, so you just have to find and try what’s best for you. The program also provides plenty of feedback on the backup process-another sign of its IT heritage.“Data protection” and “disaster recovery” should be two things near and dear to your heart, if you at least care a little bit about your work and your time. There’s a lot of geeky terminology in play, as well as concepts the average user might not be comfortable with, but the approach is consistent, such as having to define your local file system as a destination. Design and performanceĬloudBerry Backup Free is a little out-of-date appearance-wise, but it’s efficient once you know your way around. The single-user license for Windows, for instance, is $50 from CloudBerry’s site. If your data sets are larger, then you’ll need to fork over for one of the pay versions of CloudBerry Backup. This warning might be true, but Cloudberry Backup Free doesn’t offer encryption or compression even if the service or local device supports it.ĬloudBerry Backup is available for Windows, macOS, and Linux but limited to managing 200GB of data, When you’re dealing solely with online services, that’s probably more than enough. Even better, you can define how long before the delete occurs, giving you time to correct mistakes. Note that CloudBerry Backup does not sync/mirror as such, but there is an option to delete files from the destination that have been deleted from the source, which is pretty much the same thing. The second repository you’ll be asked about will be local. You can back up to local destinations without this trickery if you select “hybrid” backup when you’re asked. However, the process is slightly convoluted in that you must define your local PC’s file system as an “online” destination. While CloudBerry Backup Free is great for backing up or syncing from service to service, it also can back up to local destinations such as USB hard drives, NAS boxes, and other PCs on your network. ![]() You may, of course, work around this by using the Dropbox and iCloud clients to keep a copy of the data stored locally, but it’s not quite as elegant. iCloud is not supported, but that’s because Apple doesn’t allow this type of access. CloudBerry said it was looking into supporting the service. ![]() My minor issue with CloudBerry Backup is that it doesn’t support Dropbox, which is where I keep all my public and work-from-anywhere files. Note the “File system,” option which is used when you want to copy files locally. With the exception of Dropbox and iCloud, CloudBerry Backup Free supports just about every online service we can think of.
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