Knowledge base

What is a backup? A backup is when you make a copy of your data in case you lose the original data. You can use the backup copy to get your data back if something goes wrong. It is important for companies to have a backup plan in case something bad happens.

Walrus allows users to store persistent data, organized as buckets and objects. You can use Walrus to create, delete, and list buckets, or to put, get, and delete objects, or to set access control policies. Walrus is interface compatible with Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3). It provides a mechanism for storing and accessing virtual machine images and user data. Walrus can be accessed by end-users, whether the user is running a client from outside the cloud or from a virtual machine instance running inside the cloud.

ThinkOn’s S3-compatible object storage options provide you the ability to store or archive unstructured data across a wide range of disparate secure global facilities. Experience flexibility and simplicity of the cloud by incorporating enterprise-ready object storage in your data centre.

The SwiftStack data storage and management platform simplifies your on-premises infrastructure while enabling limitless scale of performance and capacity, helps increase the utilization level of data, and allows you to take incremental steps on your journey towards cloud.

Zettagrid is a Cloud computing provider in the Asia Pacific Region offering infrastructure as a service (IaaS), Backup (BaaS) and Disaster Recovery (DRaaS) services. The company is headquartered in Perth, Western Australia with offices in Sydney, Melbourne, Singapore and Jakarta.

Cloudian, Inc. is a US enterprise data storage company headquartered in San Mateo, California, with offices in Europe and Asia. It produces Amazon S3-compatible object storage software, scale-out file services software, and pre-configured hardware appliances

Tiscali SpA is an Italy-based company engaged in the telecommunications sector. The Company is the head of Tiscali group that offers integrated Internet access, telephony and multimedia services.

HGST has been a leading contributor to S3A and has provided several performance enhancements and bug fixes to the Apache Foundation Hadoop framework. As such the S3A connector is fully optimized to take advantage of the full performance spectrum of the HGST data lake platform, resulting in 7-10x faster write speed.

As New Zealand’s leading provider of cloud services, Spark-owned Revera needs to stay at the top of its game, proactively evolving its offerings. That means not only having the most solid and reliable cloud capabilities, but also having an intuitive and seamless way for customers to create and manage their cloud services.

Leonovus is a software provider that offers storage solutions that untether your data, allowing you to embrace cloud storage securely, simply and cost-effectively while giving you the flexibility to deal with the ever-evolving cloud storage landscape.

Dark Cloud Storage (DCS) is an object storage with redundant data storage in German data centers. In combination with the products of numerous manufacturers, the cloud storage can be seamlessly integrated into your network and opens up completely new possibilities for you to save backups and other data economically and securely. You always have as much storage space as you need and only pay for what you use. Our storage platform is robust, quickly scalable and reliably protects your data from loss.

Polycloud is an emerging cloud strategy that is starting to take hold across a range of organizations. The concept is actually pretty simple: instead of using a single cloud vendor, you use multiple vendors. By doing this, you can develop a customized cloud solution that is suited to your needs. For example, you might use AWS for the bulk of your services and infrastructure, but decide to use Google’s cloud for its machine learning capabilities.

DreamObjects is an inexpensive object storage service great for hosting files, storing backups, and Web app development.

Mandic Cloud Solutions has directed all its research and development efforts to provide a scalable cloud platform that adapts to enterprise applications and systems, eliminating project-related costs and risks and delivering significant performance gains.

DataCore Acquires Caringo. DataCore Swarm provides an on-premises object storage solution that radically simplifies the ability to manage, store, and protect data while allowing S3/HTTP access to any application, device, or end-user. Swarm transforms your data archive into a flexible and immediately accessible content library that enables remote workflows, on-demand access, and massive scalability.

T-Cloud provides intuitive workflow-based user interface to streamline, automate and scale operations. The infrastructure is hosted on Amazon Web Services (AWS)

This is a step-by-step guide on how to restore a backup from Amazon S3 using Backup4all. Amazon S3 is a storage service that you can use to store and retrieve any amount of data from anywhere on the web. It's scalable, so it can grow as your needs grow. It's available, so you can always access your data. It's secure, so your data is safe. And it's fast, so you can get to your data quickly.

Using tags in Backup4all you can schedule multiple backup jobs to run one after the other.

Scheduling the backups to be executed periodically without user intervention will help you save time.

This article explains how to schedule a new backup job in New Backup Wizard

Some HDD enclosures have a button that allows starting the execution of an associated program. If you have such a device, Backup4all might be configured to run a certain backup job when that button is pressed.

A backup job or a backup tag can be scheduled from the Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Task Scheduler window.

This article explains how to schedule a backup job or backup tag to run at system shutdown.

This article shows you how to restore a backup from a CD/DVD/Blu-ray to another computer.

WannaCry is a new type of ransomware attack that infects all the computers in a network and encrypts all data files on each computer. Users should be aware of the risks and should also know the way to protect against malicious Win32/WannaCrypt software attack. If the computer is infected, the user is asked to pay a price in order to access the operating system again. It’s better to prevent the infection than to pay the ransom.