Our team has been laboring day and night for the last month to bring you MSP360 Backup 5.4. One of the novelties of the latest iteration of our flagship backup solution is support for AWS Snowball import for SQL Server.
Snowball Import for MS SQL Server
Amazon Snowball is a service, that lets you transfer large volumes of data from your local computer(s) to Amazon S3. In a nutshell, Amazon sends you a suitcase with hard drives, worth of 50-80 TB onto which you upload your data. Then you return the suitcase back to Amazon, and shortly your data appear in the bucket you had selected.
MSP360 Backup 5.4 now supports this feature out of the box. Simply check the I’d like to use AWS Snowball Import to perform the initial backup checkbox when configuring an MS SQL Server backup plan.
Follow the further instructions to complete the procedure. In fact, we have a comprehensive tutorial on working with AWS Snowball that covers all the pitfalls and minute details you might encounter. Feel free to read it and let us know what you think in the comment section below. Read our overview article that covers the latest features in MSP360 Backup 5.4.
Further reading Working with AWS Snowball in MSP360 Backup