

There are two versions available for us to use:įreeware version - Available for personal use & comes with most features available in PRO version like flexible scheduler, retention policies, schedules backups, incremental backups, block level backups, email notifications, local backup, network location backups, symlinks support, CLI & Web interfaces. With Freeware version, we can manage data volumes up to 200 GB. PRO version - Apart from the features available mentioned with Freeware version, with PRO version we also get 256-bit AES encryption & compression. In this tutorial, we are going to discuss how we can use CloudBerry Backup to backup data from Linux system to Amazon S3.Īlso, we can manage backup of data volumes of up to 5 TB opposed to 200 GB limit of Freeware version. Pre-Requisitesġ- Linux system, we will be using the Ubuntu operating system for this tutorial, 2- AWS S3 bucket with its Access key ID & AWS secret Access key. Now download will start and we will be redirected to the next page, here you will be shown a code for a 15 day trial of PRO version.
#Cloudberry backup pro install
So if you want to test out PRO version before you purchase it, you will need this code, copy and keep it safe as it will be needed later.Īfter download has been completed, open terminal and install the package with the following command. Note - If you are using other Linux OS apart from Ubuntu/Debian, we need to only make changes to above-mentioned command depending on the package and package manager used to install the package, rest of the tutorial should be same. Now CloudBerry Backup has been installed, we can start it from the menu. Click on it to start, once started we should see the following screen: Look for ‘CloudBerry Backup’ in the system menu. Here you can select the Trial and then use the code that we got while downloading. For now, we are using Home Edition (Freeware) for this tutorial, click next to proceed.
#Cloudberry backup pro registration
Now enter a new username as well your email address and click on ‘Get registration key’ to get a freeware registration key on your email address. Now we will be asked to select the folder for which backup is done, select all folders/files for which backup needs to be done. Press ‘Continue’, on the next step we can also make some advanced changes to files or folders that we have selected for backup. Next, we can select the type of Amazon S3 storage, compression & encryption. On the next screen, we can define the retention policy for our backup, select one and then move onto the next step. Here we can select a schedule for backup, depending on our requirement we can select backup for the specific date or a recurring daily, weekly or a monthly backup.

Now on the next screen, we can configure an email address for receiving notifications about the backups. Once you press ‘Continue’ a confirmation mail will be sent to your email address and you must then confirm your registration, otherwise notification emails will not be sent to you, On the last screen, you will get summary of all the configurations made, review those and press ‘Done’ to complete the configuration. Similarly, you can create as many backup plans as needed and once you have created the plans, these can be found under ‘Backup Plans’ on the main screen of CloudBerry Backup.
