Not a tool I have tried, but I’ve just been given a link to Cloudberry Backup Review, by Paul Thurrott. I’d be interested to hear if anyone has any experience with it.
CloudBerry Backup Review
Posted on February 15, 2018 | by Paul Thurrott
CloudBerry Backup is available for free to individuals, and you can try it for yourself. You should do so. You will be impressed, I’m sure of it.
To be clear, the product’s maker, CloudBerry Lab, doesn’t just target individuals. Instead, CloudBerry Backup is a comprehensive backup solution that should meet the needs of both individuals and businesses of any size. It is an astonishingly complete product, and it comes with a key advantage over most of the competition: CloudBerry Lab doesn’t sell or resell storage.
The CloudBerry approach, which I think of as Bring Your Own Storage, or BYOS, eliminates the guessing game that often accompanies picking a backup provider. Now, you are free to choose your own storage, and to shop around and switch storage solutions when it makes sense to do so. You can simply eliminate storage quality or cost from the equation and choose the best backup solution on its own merits.
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For an individual, it means using CloudBerry Backup with local storage, like a USB hard drive or a NAS or other network-based storage, or with consumer-oriented cloud storage from OneDrive, Google Drive, or similar services. It means you can do things like boot a PC with a specially made USB disk and restore that PC from the cloud provider of your choice.
Read the full article here
CloudBerry Backup
https://www.cloudberrylab.com/backup/windows.aspx
Windows Desktop Cloud Backup
Backup files and folders to the cloud storage of your choice
CloudBerry Backup for Windows allows you to backup files and folders to Amazon S3, Amazon Glacier, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud and other cloud storage. This Windows desktop backup software is available in Freeware and Pro versions.
Freeware version. Designed for personal use only. Comes with most of the features of the PRO version, such as flexible scheduler and retention policies.
