Feature Comparison
MSP360 (CloudBerry) Backup features varying level of integration with different cloud storage providers. Some of it is due to the implementation of MSP360 (CloudBerry) Backup, and some of it stems from the specific characteristics of a cloud storage. For example, some storage providers offer exclusive functionality that is unavailable on other services.
Before you proceed to back up your data, ensure that the cloud storage you use meets all the requirements. The following table will help you get a clear picture of what feature set is available for each cloud storage:
| Storage Provider / Feature | Block-Level Backup | Encryption | Compression | Resume Upload | Detailed Report | Filename Encryption | Multithread Upload | Synthetic Backup | Max Object Size |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amazon S3 | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | 5 TB |
| Amazon S3 Glacier | — | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | — | ✔️ | — | 40 TB |
| Microsoft Azure File | ✔️ | — | — | ✔️ | ✔️ | — | ✔️ | — | 5 TB |
| Microsoft Azure Blob | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | — | 5 TB |
| BackBlaze B2 | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | — | 10 TB |
| File System | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | — | ✔️ | ✔️ | — | — | Depends on the file system |
| Google Cloud | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | — | — | 5 TB |
| OpenStack | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | — | 5 GB |
| Alibaba Object Storage | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | — | 48.8 TB |
| Amazon Cloud Drive | — | ✔️ | ✔️ | — | — | — | ✔️ | — | 48 GB |
| Deduplication Server | ✔️ | — | — | ✔️ | ✔️ | — | ✔️ | — | Depends on the file system |
| Microsoft OneDrive | — | — | — | — | — | — | ✔️ | — | 10 GB |
| S3-compatible | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | — | Depends on the storage |
| Wasabi | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | 5 TB |
MSP360 (CloudBerry) Backup uses two different approaches for processing various kinds of backups. For this reason, some of the features may become unavailable when using certain storage providers as a destination for your backups.
Block-level backup is not available for Microsoft SQL Server backups, because they are processed using the native SQL backup mechanism.
Processing File-level Backups
Block-level backup is not available when selecting any of the following storage providers as a destination for a file-level backup:
- Amazon Cloud Drive
- Amazon Glacier (except when using S3-to-Glacier lifecycle policies)
- One Drive
- MSP360 (CloudBerry) Dedup Server
Processing Image-based and Hyper-V Backups
Block-level backup is not available when selecting any of the following storage providers as a destination for an image-basedor Hyper-V backup:
- Amazon Cloud Drive
- Amazon Glacier (except when using S3-to-Glacier lifecycle policies)
- One Drive
VMware and Microsoft Exchange Server backups always use block-level backup by default, unless you select any of the above storage providers.