Now your backup plan is successfully created. Customize email notifications and system log settings. Chain your backups and assign pre-/post actions.ġ1. If you enabled block-level backup, specify the schedule for automatic running of a full backup.ġ0. Specify the schedule settings to make your backup routine run automatically.ĩ. Specify the compression and encryption settings.Ĩ. Disable VSS, use direct access to NTFS volumeĦ. With this option enabled, you can specify which folders on the selected drives you need to exclude from your backup. When choosing this option, the wizard prompts you to schedule a full backup on a corresponding page.įurther reading: Block-level Backup Explained Activate this feature to back up only modified blocks of your data after each previous backup. With MSP360 Backup you can choose to back up only system-required partitions, all drives, or only selected partitions. On this step, you can select whether you need to back up your disk image to a single destination or two destinations at once.Ĥ.
Note: For the most detailed manual with the screenshots illustrating each step please refer to this section of our Web Help.Īfter launching MSP360 Backup, you can run the Backup Wizard by clicking the Image Based buttonġ. You might also be interested to check our system image backup guide.
In this blog post, you can find the step-by-step guides on how to back up and restore your disk images with MSP360 Backup software. It really shines with its cloud support and is ideal if you don't want to be tied to one provider.MSP360 Backup for Windows Server allows you to create a system image backup of selected partition and easily restore it. You can perform the restore directly from the cloud or USB flash drive to any dissimilar hardware or Hyper-V, VMware virtual machine or Amazon EC2, Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud virtual environment. Choosing simple mode backed up our data natively, after which we could use Explorer to view our NAS repository and restore selected files.Ī central console would make it easier to administer multiple systems, but Cloudberry Enterprise Backup scores well for ease of use and hybrid backup features.
We could apply encryption to file account backups and, for additional security, CEB doesn't store the key (so make sure you record it). Restores from the NAS share were fast, too, with our 25GB test file recovered at an impressive 94MB/sec. The initial full backup of a 25GB file to a NAS share averaged 51MB/sec and a 22.4GB mishmash of 10,500 files backed up at an impressive 61MB/sec. There's also an account type for FTP/ FTPS servers. These could be pointed at any storage our servers could see, which included IP SANs, NAS shares and other local volumes. We used the File account type for hybrid backups.
However, we had no problems securing our SQL Server 2014 databases, or running image-based and bare-metal backups of selected servers.Ĭloudberry's Enterprise Backup doesn't explicitly support Hyper-V or VMware, but we could install CEB inside our Windows virtual machines and use image backups to secure them, before restoring the image backups as Hyper-V or VMware virtual disks. We ran mail-store backups on our Exchange 2013 system running CEB, but brick-level backups aren't supported. A single perpetual licence costs 198, which drops to 165 each for five to nine licences and, of course, you'll need to factor in costs for cloud storage. It can also convert an image backup to an Amazon EC2 Windows Server instance for quick cloud disaster recovery.ĬEB doesn't have a central management console, and must be installed separately on every system you want to back up.
Furthermore, we could have placed multiple files in one archive to reduce the number of cloud requests and cut costs by using Amazon's Reduced Redundancy Storage for non-critical data.ĬEB can back up data from a cloud vault to a local drive, and even from one cloud provider to another. The advanced mode offers up to AES-256 encryption and block-level backup, while the simple mode uses Amazon's server-side encryption and allows data to be accessed directly from the AWS Console.