Like with backups, you have have a scheduled restore plan, or just run a one-off restore. You can then select whether to restore from you local copy, or from the cloud, if you did a Hybrid backup, otherwise it is from the cloud. To run a restore, you simply press the "restore" icon from the toolbar at the top to start the Restore Wizard. When you review and finish, you can then see your new plan, and can run it by pressing on the "play" arrow.īackups are useless if you can't recover, so recovery testing should be a critical part of any process, especially for your personal files! You can also choose to receive notifications for when the backup fails, or for all successful backups too. If you are using block level backups, the product will strongly recommend scheduled changes, which makes sense, as block level changes will be much smaller when running regular backups.Ī nice touch, is the ability to run commands before and after the backup, and also chain backups together. Or alternatively, just leave it and you can run it manually. Global settings are probably the way to go here, and then just modify specific settings if you have a requirement for a particular location, or back-end storage platform. Here you can use retention settings specific to this particular plan, or you can opt to use your global retention settings. Then, you can choose your retention settings. You can also choose the storage class that you want to use as well. When you choose next, you then also have the option to enable compression and encryption, including SSE (Server Side Encryption) if you are backing up to a platform that supports this, such as S3. There are some really good options here, so for example you can exclude files over a specific size, or choose to whitelist/backlist specific file types. Here, you can select multiple locations, and then press OK to get to the advanced options. If you don't have an AWS account, you can actually sign up for one at this point too.Īfter pressing Next, you are prompted for a name for your plan, and you can then select what you want to backup. So I entered my Access Key and Secret key, and then selected my (previously created) heywoodonline-cb-backup bucket. These inlcude Azure, Google Cloud, OpenStack, and many others. Obviously I am going to use AWS S3 for this, but Cloudberry Backup also supports a lot of additional platforms, as you can see in the image below.
You then need to create your cloud storage account. Once you have specified the path and credentials (if required) and pressed "OK", you will be able to select this as your local storage.
Again, this could be local, or over the network. This is where you specify the path and credentials for where the backup is going to go. When you select "next", you will be prompted to create a local storage account. I like the option to also scan files for ransomware. You may have a NAS box, or USB drive that you want to do the backup to first, to ensure that youh a copy, and then Cloudberry Backup with syncronize it up to the cloud. This is useful because backing up to the cloud can take a while, depending on your bandwidth, so the ability to do hybrid backup, gives you a local copy of your backup, and then it will upload to the cloud in it's own time. So the first thing you get when you select files, is a wizard, with a choice of "local or cloud", or "hybrid" backup. Which is fine, I am not running MS SQL Server or MS Exchange on my desktop, and although I have images, files are what I am after at this point.
Once installed, a backup service is started on your PC, and you then have the choice of four different backup types, although as this is the desktop edition, I am restricted to "files". The installation of very straight-forward, as this is just an. I was lucky enough to recevie a copy of Cloudberry Backup to allow me to give it a review and test. Cloud services make the abiilty to run a backup much easier, and obviously you don't require new hardware in order to run it. Backups are a critical part of any IT operation, and they should be at home too.