The Cloudberry interface is also very functional. The Cloudberry support folks have been very informative and patient!
This has especially been handy given that I knew next to nothing about backup software and the various options before encountering Cloudberry. They usually respond to support tickets within 24 hours or less. Being able to encrypt data on the client-side with strong encryption BEFORE uploading to the cloud, being able to choose among numerous options for cloud storage that are out there without being locked into and completely dependent upon just one service, and being able to fine-tune numerous options in a backup plan are only some of the pros.Ĭloudberry also has great customer support. Among other things, Cloudberry gives even home-users some control over backups. Pros: As someone who is not particularly tech-savvy and saw the demise of Crashplan for consumers, I have been very happy to discovery Cloudberry backup. The progress bars are not very helpful - you can't really see how much is waiting to be backed up and it's difficult to see how much is currently in the backup storage.īeyond that major issue, I've run into some glitches - but nothing that keeps me from using the software. On the other hand, they seem to be willing to release that limitation in exchange for a review, so that's okay. So $29 for the basic desktop version - but if you want to backup all those movies and music and home videos - the price goes up by 10x.
You really have to search the website to even find this out - it's not described in the product specs. These days, with large media files, 1 TB is not so large. This is surprising at first because Cloudberry is not providing the storage! It is a purely arbitrary limitation that has nothing to do with software capabilities.
I'm not thrilled that I need a license for every single machine I want to backup - but the real kicker is that there is a 1TB limit on cloud storage with all the editions except the very expensive Ultimate edition. Another issue for me is the business model. Hopefully, CB will improve version control. I've used crashplan in the past, which has abandoned its consumer market - but crashplan had excellent control of version saving so you could save more recent versions and less older versions - while always retaining some older backups in case you need to do a restore from an older period. So far it looks like I'll be able to do it all with Cloudberry which is great, and in addition, combine local and cloud backup flexibly.Ĭons: Backup version control could be improved.
I'm using it on WHS2011, where I've previously had to cobble together a mix of Windows server backup and 3rd party options. The server backup edition offers OS backup, system state backup and bare metal backup restore, which is really nice. Basically, if you want to choose your storage provider separately and are looking for a tool to access that storage, that can work with different providers and offers multiple backup sets, it seems like the best choice, at least in this price range.
It's got some quirky elements, but I've been able to figure out how to do most things pretty easily. The interface is pretty good, at least compared to the competition. It will work with just about any cloud provider that you might need, including Backblaze B2. It's incredibly flexible in terms of configuration and storage options. Pros: I'm focusing this review on the Server Backup edition of CB backup. So, in conclusion, I would certainly recommend the software as such thing that helped me and resolved my issues. It's important for me as I have a lot of data to be backed up and can't afford spending much time for it, though need rely on it's outcome. It seems due to multithreading engine it can retain very high speed of upload, in fact as high as I hardly ever had while being used other upload methods. Especially I was happy enough about the speed and stability of bandwidth wile backing up. Hopefully, eventually I ran across MSP360 software and surprisingly had a delightful experience with it right away. However, in most software solution I've been testing I was rarely satisfied, whether it's been the lack of usability, and mostly about the amount of the software maintain the speed of connection and the bandwidth while backing up. As a photographer I have to manage huge amount of image files with RAW data, these are quite bulky and ravenous in term of HDD space used, nevertheless quite important for me to save and have a backup of it.
Overall: I spent a plenty of time comparing a lot of software, trying trial and free versions, looking for a solution that'd help me complete my home/small business/hobbyist backup.