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CloudBerry Explorer for Amazon S3

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 12:00:00 EST

CloudBerry Explorer allows end users to accomplish simple tasks without special technical knowledge, automate time-consuming tasks to improve productivity. AWS Import/Export accelerates moving large amounts of data into and out of AWS using portable storage devices for transport. AWS loads your data directly onto and off of storage devices using Amazon's high-speed internal network and bypassing the Internet. New version of CloudBerry Explorer automates the process of creating the manifest file and digitally signing it along with the job identifier with your AWS Secret Access Key and placing that signature file on the device.

CloudBerry S3 Explorer now with US-West support

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 12:11:00 EST

Note: this post applies to CloudBerry Explorer 1.7.1 and later.

Just a few days ago Amazon S3 team announced the availability of the new data center in Northern California region. CloudBerry Lab team has been quick to respond and has added support for US-West region to CloudBerry S3 Explorer freeware and PRO.

Basically you have a new option when are creating a new bucket you have an option to create it in US-West region.

Amazon is planning on expanding their data centers to Asia next year and CloudBerry lab is also going to support new regions.

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CloudBerry S3 Explorer is a Windows freeware product that helps managing Amazon S3 storage and CloudFront . You can download it at http://cloudberrylab.com/

CloudBerry S3 Explorer PRO is a Windows program that helps managing Amazon S3 storage and CloudFront . You can download it at http://cloudberrylab.com/ It is currently in beta and free for all users. You can download it at http://cloudberrylab.com/

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How to Send Diagnostic Info With CloudBerry Backup

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 15:45:00 EST

In CloudBerry Lab we are striving to make our customer service better. In this competitive market with the abundance of free offerings this is the only way to stay afloat. One of the ways to keep customers happy is to be very responsive when it comes to support request resolution. Should you delay the request and the customer will turn to a competitor. Sometimes it takes a lot of time to understand what the issue is and what caused it. This is very diagnostic log helps dramatically. In the new version of CloudBerry Backup we made it even easier to send us the diagnostic information.

How to sync local folders with Amazon S3 using CloudBerry S3 Explorer PRO and PowerShell

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 12:01:00 EST

Note: this post applies to CloudBerry Explorer 1.6.3 PRO and later.

We continue enhancing PowerShell command line interface for Amazon S3 in CloudBerry Explorer and recently we added a command that complement the new Sync Folder feature. Check out our previous post if you want to learn more about that feature.

In this post we will explain how you can configure automated synchronization using the new PowerShell command. Here is an example

First you have to configure proxy settings

Set-CloudOption -ProxyAddress {PROXY} -ProxyPort 8080

Then you have to connect to your Amazon S3 account with access key and security key

$s3 = Get-CloudS3Connection -Key XXXX -Secret XXXX

Select the path on Amazon S3

$source = $s3 | Select-CloudFolder -Path boooks/sync

Connect to local file system and select local folder

$local = Get-CloudFileSystemConnection

$temp = $local | Select-CloudFolder C:\temp\sync

Synchronize contents from $source to $temp, in other words from Amazon S3 to local folder

$source | Copy-CloudSyncFolders $temp

Or synchronize content in both ways.

$source | Copy-CloudSyncFolders $temp –Bidirectional

You can save the whole script into the files and schedule it using Windows Task Schedule to run synchronization periodically.

If you came to this post by chance you should know that CloudBerry S3 Explorer PRO is a Windows program that helps managing Amazon S3 storage and CloudFront . You can download it at http://cloudberrylab.com/ It is currently in beta and free for all users. You can download it at http://cloudberrylab.com/

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How to Install CloudBerry Backup for Windows Home Server

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 09:00:00 EST

In this post we will explain how to install or re-install CloudBerry Backup add-on for Windows Home Server.

Originally it is from here http://usingwindowshomeserver.com/2009/04/19/how-to-install-or-remove-an-add-in-for-windows-home-server/

Open WHS server shared folder: \\YOUR WHS\Shared Folders\Software\Add-Ins
Copy the add-in (it is likely to be called WHS_CloudBerryOnlineBackupSetup_v1.3.1.371o.msi) to the Add-Ins folder.
Launch the Windows Home Server Console.
Click the Settings button on the Windows Home Server Console to open the Settings screen.
Click Add-ins in the left pane.
Click the Available tab. You should now see CloudBerry Online Backup add-in listed.

Please note you should uninstall previous versions of CloudBerry Online Backup if you ever had it before.

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CloudBerry S3 Backup for Windows Home Server is WHS add-on that automates data backup and restore to online storage powered by Amazon S3 cloud storage. It comes with onetime fee of $29.99 (US) and you can download fully functional 30 days evaluation version at http://www.cloudberrylab.com/default.aspx?page=backup-whs

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Search Across Your S3 Buckets with CloudBerry Explorer PRO

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:00:00 EST

In CloudBerry Lab we are always thinking how to bring more value to our users. Since we use Amazon S3 heavily ourselves it is easy sometimes to identify things that will make CloudBerry Explorer a better tool and the ability to Search for a specific data is one of them.

A few things to consider when doing software project outsourcing.

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:16:43 EST

We recently completed an outsourcing project for a customer that went relatively well. I just want to share some thoughts on outsourcing and when it works well. I don't think it is new for most of the people, but it good to remind yourself every once in a while. Anyways, here you go.

1. don't do outsourcing if you under a pressure to make the date. Most likely you will not make the date

2. understand that outsourcing team is not part of yours. they have different work culture.

3. understand that their deliverables might not be exactly what you expect and plan enough time to put it in order

4. employ outsourcing when you need something to be done but you have relatively enough time

5. employ outsourcing if you want to put your key (internal) resource on the key area of your product while slowly moving towards strategic goal with the help of outside team.

6. make outsourced task as self contained as possible. the more integration requirement and inter-team communications you have the better chance for failure.

I have been in this area for ~7 year and we use outsourcing in CloudBerry Lab too. We employ some freelancers and their initial work is ... complete crap. But we realize at the beginning what we will get and we're slowly improving. At the end we are all happy.

Hope some of our readers will find it useful

How to generate CloudFront Private URLs using Canned Policy

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:24:00 EST

This is a second article related to CloudFront Private Content feature that allows you restrict the access to your content. Apparently CloudFront private content configuration is not straight forward and involves many steps as described in our previous post. You have to configure your distribution to support private content, generate keys, create policies and finally sign URLs. CloudFront users wanted something simple similar to Amazon S3 Query String authentication.

What’s new in CloudBerry S3 Explorer Sync Folders

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 12:31:00 EST

Note: this post applies to CloudBerry Explorer 1.6.5 and later.

A few weeks ago we released a preview of Sync Folders feature that allows automatically synchronize local folders with Amazon S3 buckets. Over a few weeks we got we gathered some feedback from our user community and we are happy to announce some improvements.

Sync folders based on names only

This option works exactly like its name implies. In other words it will only copy files if it finds the files with new names. This option works faster as we don’t have to identify date modified for each files.

Sync folder apply ACL automatically

In the previous release you had to manually set ACLs to the files copied to the bucket using Sync Folder features. In the latest release the bucket ACL can be applied to new files automatically. To make it work you have to set Permission inheritance option in Tools | Options | Copy/Move tab:

A bit of usability…

And last but not least some of our users complained that they were confused once they created a sync folder. What should I do next? Does it run automatically or I should do something to run it? We added a message explaining what you should do next to run sync.

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If you came to this post by chance you should know that CloudBerry S3 Explorer is a Windows freeware product that helps managing Amazon S3 storage and CloudFront . You can download it at http://cloudberrylab.com/

If you came to this post by chance you should know that CloudBerry S3 Explorer PRO is a Windows program that helps managing Amazon S3 storage and CloudFront . You can download it at http://cloudberrylab.com/ It is currently in beta and free for all users. You can download it at http://cloudberrylab.com/

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Manage CloudFront Private Content with CloudBerry Explorer Freeware

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 09:00:00 EST

CloudBerry Lab has released CloudBerry Explorer v1.7, a freeware application that allows users to manage files in Amazon S3 buckets just as they would on their local computers.

Managing CloudFront Private Content with CloudBerry S3 Explorer

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:40:27 EST

Note: this post applies to CloudBerry Explorer 1.7 and later.

CloudBerry S3 Explorer is by far the most popular Amazon S3 and CloudFront manager on Windows platform. At the same time Amazon rapidly enhance their services to meet growing customer expectations. To maintain our leadership position we are trying to say on top of Amazon developments and support all recent enhancements in CloudBerry Explorer.

Today CloudFront team introduced a new exciting capability that will help to protect your content on the distributions. You might want to use CloudFront to deliver a digital asset you’ve sold online, or use it to distribute objects only to your company’s employees. In these circumstances, you need detailed control over who can download your “private” content. As a result today Amazon added an ability to handle private content in Amazon CloudFront.

How CloudBerry Explorer supports CloudFront Private Content?

First you have to configure a distribution to serve private content. You can configure and existing distribution or a new distribution, but a distribution should be created before you configure private content. Check out here to learn how to create a CloudFront distribution.

To configure a distribution for private content click on the distribution properties on the toolbar on in the content menu and go to the Private Content tab.

Click the checkbox to enable Private Content. Now there are a few things that might confuse you at first.

Origin Access Identity: this is a "virtual" user that is used for managing permissions. Since you are able to restrict access you need to set permissions for objects. But for whom? Amazon provides some "virtual" users for this purpose. The Origin Identity that you see CloudBerry Explorer generates for you automatically as you should have at list one. You can also generate them using CloudFront API.

Identity S3 canonical user ID. This is the user ID that you can use in ACL editor to grant permissions. It is associated with the Origin Access Identity.

Trusted Signers:
You can only obtain the access to objects with signed URLs.
Trusted signers are Amazon S3 accounts numbers of users who can generate singed URLs. If one of them will generate signed URL with his private key, it will be valid. If someone else tries to generate signed URL - it will be invalid.

To find your account number go to Your Account | Account Activity on AWS website. Look for Account Number as shown on the screen:

Add myself to trusted signers: by default you are not added to Trusted Signers. So if you want to generate signed URLs you have to check it.

Granting permissions to origin access identity

Notice that ACL dialog has been extended to include Origin Access Identity account automatically for CloudFront distributions configured for Private Content and grant Read access to it.

Security Policies

Before we go any further we have to learn what Security Policy is. Click Tools | Policies in the program menu to open policies window and click New Policy. It helps you to create the policy which will basically define an IP range and address range to limit access to your private content.

Specify a path to your Private Key file in the private key field. This key will be used to sign the Policy.

Key Pair ID is something you will get from Amazon when you generate a Key Pair using Amazon web interface our upload your own key.

The policy on the screen below will grant access to every IP address 0.0.0.0/0 and to every file in your bucket http://*

Note: that the policies are stored locally on your computer. So if you run CloudBerry Explorer on another computer or somebody else manage your S3 account the policies are not shared.

What is Private Key and how I can get it?

The private key - is the file in PEM format. The key pair (public (for Amazon to check your signature) + private (to be stored securely on your computer)) can be generated by Amazon on your account page.

If you already have a key pair, you can upload PUBLIC key to Amazon S3 (using your account web interface), and use your PRIVATE key to sign the URLs.

Using a Key Pair Generated by AWS

If you don't already have key pair, you can have AWS generate a pair and automatically associate the public key with your AWS account.

To have AWS create a key pair for you

1. Go to the Amazon Web Services web site at http://aws.amazon.com .

2. Point to Your Account and click Security Credentials.

3. Log in to your AWS account.

The Security Credentials page is displayed.

4. In the Access Credentials section of the page, click the Key Pairs tab.

5. Click Create a New Key Pair.

Your new public and private key are generated, along with an ID for the key pair. Amazon keeps the public key and gives you the private key.

6. From the dialog box, download your private key file to a local directory, and record the corresponding key ID.

Here's how it looks like

Important: If you're an Amazon EC2 user, you probably already have at least one other key pair, which you use to connect to your instances through SSH or Windows Remote Desktop. Your Amazon EC2 key pairs work only with Amazon EC2, and your Amazon CloudFront keys work only with CloudFront. You can't use the private key from one service with the other service.

To upload your own public key

1. Go to the Amazon Web Services web site at http://aws.amazon.com.

2. Point to Your Account and click Security Credentials.

3. Log in to your AWS account. The Security Credentials page is displayed.

4. In the Access Credentials section of the page, click the Key Pairs tab.

5. Click Upload Your Own Public Key.

6. Follow the instructions presented to upload your public key.

How to generate Private Content URL?

Generate Web Url dialog has been extended. The new option only shows up when creating a URL for objects residing on CloudFront Distributions configured for Private Content.

Conclusion

We hope CloudFront Private Content support in CloudBerry Explorer will make it easier to explore new CloudFront functionality and make CloudBerry Explorer your tool of choice for managing S3 and CloudFront.

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How to setup CloudBerry S3 Backup notification

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:09:13 EST

Note: this post applies to CloudBerry Backup and CloudBerry Backup for WHS 1.3.1 and later.

CloudBerry S3 Backup is a powerful Windows backup and restore that automate backup and restore processes to Amazon S3 cloud storage.

As always we are adding features that our customers are requesting. One of the things our customers have been asking us ever since the first beta release is an option to get an email when backup completes successfully or failed. Today we are proud to announce it.

How to setup email notification?

Nothing could be easier. We added another step to the end of the Backup Plan wizard where you can configure a notification. You can choose between getting emails after every run or only when backup plan fails. If it fails you can also optionally send a diagnostic log to CloudBerry Lab support so that we can look into your problem immediately.

Confirming email address

When you enter email address you will have to confirm it.

We will send you a confirmation email and you will have to click the link to confirm it. If you don’t confirm your email address or enter a fake email address you will never receive the notification as we don’t want to send unsolicited emails.

Notification

When everything is set you will be getting an email according to your settings in case of successful or failed backup. The email will looks like this:

Hope you will like our new feature and as always we are welcome your feedback.

If you came to this post by chance you should know that CloudBerry Backup is a Windows program that leverages Amazon S3 storage. It is currently in private beta and you can learn more about it (and request a beta invitation code) at http://cloudberrydrive.com/

Your account is not signed-up for Amazon S3

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 12:49:00 EST

We continue our series of articles devoted to common Amazon S3 issues. In our previous article we discussed the difference between the requested time and the current time is too large error.

In this article we will discuss how to handle Your account is not signed up for Amazon S3 issue. This error occurs when you are surprisingly enough… not signed up for Amazon S3. Apparently, there is a two steps process to get an Amazon S3 account. First you have to create an Amazon account

Second, you have to sign up to each service separately. Go to http://aws.amazon.com/s3 and click large Sign Up for Amazon S3 button.

We described the sign-up process in details at http://blog.cloudberrylab.com/2009/02/how-to-sign-up-for-amazon-s3-service.html

How to verify if my account is signed up for a service?

The best way to verify if you are in fact signed-up for the service is to go to Your Account. This is the top right link on the AWS website. Choose Account Activity in pop-up menu.

Then you should see the list of the services you are signed up for.

If you don’t see Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) in the list you are not signed up for it.

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If you came to this post by chance you should know that CloudBerry S3 Explorer is a Windows freeware product that helps managing Amazon S3 storage and CloudFront . You can download it at http://cloudberrylab.com/ (yes, we do this kind of post to promote our product! ;-) )

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How to send diagnostic info with CloudBerry Explorer

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 02:07:13 EST

Note: this post applies to CloudBerry Explorer 1.6.3 and later.

Sometimes it takes a lot of time to understand what the issue is and what caused it. This is very diagnostic log helps dramatically. In the new version of CloudBerry Explorer we made it even easier to send us the diagnostic information.

All you have to do is to go to Tools| Diagnostics and you will get this window

Now click Send button and you will get the following screen. Here you can explain what the issue to help us a little more. Finally you have an option to post the message to our discussion forum at http://www.cloudberrylab.com/forum/default.aspx so that other CloudBerry Lab users benefit from the resolution too.

Now click Send button and the log files along with your message will be automatically transferred to our web service.

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CloudBerry Backup - Purging Options Explained

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 12:55:00 EST

Note: this post applies to CloudBerry Backup 1.3 and later. CloudBerry S3 Backup is a powerful Windows backup and restore that automate backup and restore processes to Amazon S3 cloud storage. In this post we will try to explain you how to configure purging options and why you need them. CloudBerry Backup creates a version of the file on backup storage each time the file is modified. Using purging options you basically configure how many versions to keep. This helps you keep the number of versions to the necessary minimum and cut down on storage requirements.

Introducing CloudBerry Explorer for Azure Blob Storage

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 05:30:00 EST

Recently we announced the beta release of CloudBerry Explorer for Nirvanix. In our attempt to increase the breadth of cloud storage support and we are proud to announce CloudBerry Explorer for Microsoft Azure Blob Storage as our third product in the series

What is Microsoft Azure?

Microsoft Azure is a cloud operating system where developers can host their applications to benefit from cloud platform. When you host application in the cloud you get virtually unlimited scalability and pay as you use model that hard to underestimate. Every cloud platform would be incomplete without storage support and Microsoft’s platform is not an exception. Azure comes with 3 types of storage: Table Storage, Queue Storage and Blob Storage.

What is Microsoft Azure Blob Storage

Among other storage types Azure Blob Storage is the one that can be compared with Amazon S3 and as its name suggests designed to store binary data. Obviously you can store the files of different types in the storage like this.

How CloudBerry Explorer supports Azure Blob Storage

First, you register account same way. We will have a separate post on how to obtain the account.

Once you register your account you can do usual file operations such create containers, folders, copy/move files between Azure Blob storage and your local computers. You can also copy files between two Azure Blob storage accounts.

Note: when you copy files between different accounts they go through your local computer.

Feature list

* Register and connect to any number of Microsoft Azure Blob Storage accounts

* Work with any number of Microsoft Azure Blob Storage accounts simultaneously

* Create, browse, and delete Microsoft Azure Blob Storage files

* Create, browse, and delete folders

* Copy and move files between Microsoft Azure Blob Storage and your local computer

* Manage containers and blobs

* Create Blob containers

* List blob containers

* Delete Container

* Upload/ Download blobs

* Copy/ Move blobs

* Delete blobs

* Rename blobs

* Veiw blobs

* Blob metadata

* Signed URL for blobs

* Ability to split blobs into multiple blocks View files properties

* Copy/Move in background

* Synchronize folders

* Copy files from Windows Explorer

* Remember user settings

* Built-in feedback form

* Automated check for updates

What’s next

As always we are going to gather user feedback and incorporate it into the product before final release. This is just a short list of things that we have on our list.

1. Support for $root container

2. Support for Conditional headers

3. Support for ACL editing

4. Support for Server timeouts

5. Support for Metadata for containers and blobs

We are also going to implement a PowerShell interface for Azure Blob storage to help users automate their routine tasks.

There are even more exciting features coming. Stay tuned!

CloudBerry Explorer for Azure is a freeware program, it is currently in beta and you can download it at http://www.cloudberrylab.com/default.aspx?page=explorer-azure

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How to protect Amazon S3 accounts with master password using CloudBerry S3 Explorer

Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 EST

Note: this post applies to CloudBerry Explorer 1.6.3 and later.

In this post we would like to introduce our new Master Password feature that protects CloudBerry S3 Explorer from authorized access. Although rarely these days some users still work on shared computers where other users have access to their data. Master Password helps you further protect your Amazon S3 account from unauthorized access.

To enable Master Password go to the Options screen, General tab. Click protect my sensitive data with master password option and enter the password.

Next time you run CloudBerry Explorer it will ask you to enter the password.

As simple as that. We hope you will find it useful and as always we look forward to your feedback.

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How to protect Amazon S3 accounts with master password using CloudBerry S3 Explorer

Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 EST

Note: this post applies to CloudBerry Explorer 1.6.3 and later.

To enable Master Password go to the Options screen, General tab. Click protect my sensitive data with master password option and enter the password.

Next time you run CloudBerry Explorer it will ask you to enter the password.

As simple as that. We hope you will find it useful and as always we look forward to your feedback.

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How to protect Amazon S3 accounts with master password using CloudBerry S3 Explorer

Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 EST

Note: this post applies to CloudBerry Explorer 1.6.3 and later.

To enable Master Password go to the Options screen, General tab. Click protect my sensitive data with master password option and enter the password.

Next time you run CloudBerry Explorer it will ask you to enter the password.

As simple as that. We hope you will find it useful and as always we look forward to your feedback.

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How to protect Amazon S3 accounts with master password using CloudBerry S3 Explorer

Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 EST

Note: this post applies to CloudBerry Explorer 1.6.3 and later.

To enable Master Password go to the Options screen, General tab. Click protect my sensitive data with master password option and enter the password.

Next time you run CloudBerry Explorer it will ask you to enter the password.

As simple as that. We hope you will find it useful and as always we look forward to your feedback.

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How to protect Amazon S3 accounts with master password using CloudBerry S3 Explorer

Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 EST

Note: this post applies to CloudBerry Explorer 1.6.3 and later.

To enable Master Password go to the Options screen, General tab. Click protect my sensitive data with master password option and enter the password.

Next time you run CloudBerry Explorer it will ask you to enter the password.

As simple as that. We hope you will find it useful and as always we look forward to your feedback.

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How to protect Amazon S3 accounts with master password using CloudBerry S3 Explorer

Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 EST

Note: this post applies to CloudBerry Explorer 1.6.3 and later.

To enable Master Password go to the Options screen, General tab. Click protect my sensitive data with master password option and enter the password.

Next time you run CloudBerry Explorer it will ask you to enter the password.

As simple as that. We hope you will find it useful and as always we look forward to your feedback.

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How to protect Amazon S3 accounts with master password using CloudBerry S3 Explorer

Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 EST

Note: this post applies to CloudBerry Explorer 1.6.3 and later.

To enable Master Password go to the Options screen, General tab. Click protect my sensitive data with master password option and enter the password.

Next time you run CloudBerry Explorer it will ask you to enter the password.

As simple as that. We hope you will find it useful and as always we look forward to your feedback.

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How to protect Amazon S3 accounts with master password using CloudBerry S3 Explorer

Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 EST

Note: this post applies to CloudBerry Explorer 1.6.3 and later.

To enable Master Password go to the Options screen, General tab. Click protect my sensitive data with master password option and enter the password.

Next time you run CloudBerry Explorer it will ask you to enter the password.

As simple as that. We hope you will find it useful and as always we look forward to your feedback.

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How to protect Amazon S3 accounts with master password using CloudBerry S3 Explorer

Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 EST

Note: this post applies to CloudBerry Explorer 1.6.3 and later.

To enable Master Password go to the Options screen, General tab. Click protect my sensitive data with master password option and enter the password.

Next time you run CloudBerry Explorer it will ask you to enter the password.

As simple as that. We hope you will find it useful and as always we look forward to your feedback.

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How to protect Amazon S3 accounts with master password using CloudBerry S3 Explorer

Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 EST

Note: this post applies to CloudBerry Explorer 1.6.3 and later.

To enable Master Password go to the Options screen, General tab. Click protect my sensitive data with master password option and enter the password.

Next time you run CloudBerry Explorer it will ask you to enter the password.

As simple as that. We hope you will find it useful and as always we look forward to your feedback.

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How to protect Amazon S3 accounts with master password using CloudBerry S3 Explorer

Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 EST

Note: this post applies to CloudBerry Explorer 1.6.3 and later.

To enable Master Password go to the Options screen, General tab. Click protect my sensitive data with master password option and enter the password.

Next time you run CloudBerry Explorer it will ask you to enter the password.

As simple as that. We hope you will find it useful and as always we look forward to your feedback.

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How to protect Amazon S3 accounts with master password using CloudBerry S3 Explorer

Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 EST

Note: this post applies to CloudBerry Explorer 1.6.3 and later.

To enable Master Password go to the Options screen, General tab. Click protect my sensitive data with master password option and enter the password.

Next time you run CloudBerry Explorer it will ask you to enter the password.

As simple as that. We hope you will find it useful and as always we look forward to your feedback.

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How to protect Amazon S3 accounts with master password using CloudBerry S3 Explorer

Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 EST

Note: this post applies to CloudBerry Explorer 1.6.3 and later.

To enable Master Password go to the Options screen, General tab. Click protect my sensitive data with master password option and enter the password.

Next time you run CloudBerry Explorer it will ask you to enter the password.

As simple as that. We hope you will find it useful and as always we look forward to your feedback.

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How to protect Amazon S3 accounts with master password using CloudBerry S3 Explorer

Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 EST

Note: this post applies to CloudBerry Explorer 1.6.3 and later.

To enable Master Password go to the Options screen, General tab. Click protect my sensitive data with master password option and enter the password.

Next time you run CloudBerry Explorer it will ask you to enter the password.

As simple as that. We hope you will find it useful and as always we look forward to your feedback.

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How to protect Amazon S3 accounts with master password using CloudBerry S3 Explorer

Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 EST

Note: this post applies to CloudBerry Explorer 1.6.3 and later.

To enable Master Password go to the Options screen, General tab. Click protect my sensitive data with master password option and enter the password.

Next time you run CloudBerry Explorer it will ask you to enter the password.

As simple as that. We hope you will find it useful and as always we look forward to your feedback.

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How to protect Amazon S3 accounts with master password using CloudBerry S3 Explorer

Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 EST

Note: this post applies to CloudBerry Explorer 1.6.3 and later.

To enable Master Password go to the Options screen, General tab. Click protect my sensitive data with master password option and enter the password.

Next time you run CloudBerry Explorer it will ask you to enter the password.

As simple as that. We hope you will find it useful and as always we look forward to your feedback.

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How to protect Amazon S3 accounts with master password using CloudBerry S3 Explorer

Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 EST

Note: this post applies to CloudBerry Explorer 1.6.3 and later.

To enable Master Password go to the Options screen, General tab. Click protect my sensitive data with master password option and enter the password.

Next time you run CloudBerry Explorer it will ask you to enter the password.

As simple as that. We hope you will find it useful and as always we look forward to your feedback.

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How to protect Amazon S3 accounts with master password using CloudBerry S3 Explorer

Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 EST

Note: this post applies to CloudBerry Explorer 1.6.3 and later.

To enable Master Password go to the Options screen, General tab. Click protect my sensitive data with master password option and enter the password.

Next time you run CloudBerry Explorer it will ask you to enter the password.

As simple as that. We hope you will find it useful and as always we look forward to your feedback.

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How to protect Amazon S3 accounts with master password using CloudBerry S3 Explorer

Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 EST

Note: this post applies to CloudBerry Explorer 1.6.3 and later.

To enable Master Password go to the Options screen, General tab. Click protect my sensitive data with master password option and enter the password.

Next time you run CloudBerry Explorer it will ask you to enter the password.

As simple as that. We hope you will find it useful and as always we look forward to your feedback.

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How to protect Amazon S3 accounts with master password using CloudBerry S3 Explorer

Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 EST

Note: this post applies to CloudBerry Explorer 1.6.3 and later.

To enable Master Password go to the Options screen, General tab. Click protect my sensitive data with master password option and enter the password.

Next time you run CloudBerry Explorer it will ask you to enter the password.

As simple as that. We hope you will find it useful and as always we look forward to your feedback.

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How to protect Amazon S3 accounts with master password using CloudBerry S3 Explorer

Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 EST

Note: this post applies to CloudBerry Explorer 1.6.3 and later.

To enable Master Password go to the Options screen, General tab. Click protect my sensitive data with master password option and enter the password.

Next time you run CloudBerry Explorer it will ask you to enter the password.

As simple as that. We hope you will find it useful and as always we look forward to your feedback.

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How to protect Amazon S3 accounts with master password using CloudBerry S3 Explorer

Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 EST

Note: this post applies to CloudBerry Explorer 1.6.3 and later.

To enable Master Password go to the Options screen, General tab. Click protect my sensitive data with master password option and enter the password.

Next time you run CloudBerry Explorer it will ask you to enter the password.

As simple as that. We hope you will find it useful and as always we look forward to your feedback.

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How to protect Amazon S3 accounts with master password using CloudBerry S3 Explorer

Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 EST

Note: this post applies to CloudBerry Explorer 1.6.3 and later.

To enable Master Password go to the Options screen, General tab. Click protect my sensitive data with master password option and enter the password.

Next time you run CloudBerry Explorer it will ask you to enter the password.

As simple as that. We hope you will find it useful and as always we look forward to your feedback.

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How to protect Amazon S3 accounts with master password using CloudBerry S3 Explorer

Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 EST

Note: this post applies to CloudBerry Explorer 1.6.3 and later.

To enable Master Password go to the Options screen, General tab. Click protect my sensitive data with master password option and enter the password.

Next time you run CloudBerry Explorer it will ask you to enter the password.

As simple as that. We hope you will find it useful and as always we look forward to your feedback.

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How to protect Amazon S3 accounts with master password using CloudBerry S3 Explorer

Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 EST

Note: this post applies to CloudBerry Explorer 1.6.3 and later.

To enable Master Password go to the Options screen, General tab. Click protect my sensitive data with master password option and enter the password.

Next time you run CloudBerry Explorer it will ask you to enter the password.

As simple as that. We hope you will find it useful and as always we look forward to your feedback.

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How to protect Amazon S3 accounts with master password using CloudBerry S3 Explorer

Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 EST

Note: this post applies to CloudBerry Explorer 1.6.3 and later.

To enable Master Password go to the Options screen, General tab. Click protect my sensitive data with master password option and enter the password.

Next time you run CloudBerry Explorer it will ask you to enter the password.

As simple as that. We hope you will find it useful and as always we look forward to your feedback.

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How to protect Amazon S3 accounts with master password using CloudBerry S3 Explorer

Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 EST

Note: this post applies to CloudBerry Explorer 1.6.3 and later.

To enable Master Password go to the Options screen, General tab. Click protect my sensitive data with master password option and enter the password.

Next time you run CloudBerry Explorer it will ask you to enter the password.

As simple as that. We hope you will find it useful and as always we look forward to your feedback.

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How to protect Amazon S3 accounts with master password using CloudBerry S3 Explorer

Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 EST

Note: this post applies to CloudBerry Explorer 1.6.3 and later.

To enable Master Password go to the Options screen, General tab. Click protect my sensitive data with master password option and enter the password.

Next time you run CloudBerry Explorer it will ask you to enter the password.

As simple as that. We hope you will find it useful and as always we look forward to your feedback.

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How to protect Amazon S3 accounts with master password using CloudBerry S3 Explorer

Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 EST

Note: this post applies to CloudBerry Explorer 1.6.3 and later.

To enable Master Password go to the Options screen, General tab. Click protect my sensitive data with master password option and enter the password.

Next time you run CloudBerry Explorer it will ask you to enter the password.

As simple as that. We hope you will find it useful and as always we look forward to your feedback.

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Back up your data online with CloudBerry S3 Backup

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:23:52 EDT

CloudBerry Lab has released CloudBerry Online Backup - an application that allows users to backup their data online to their Amazon S3 accounts.

Introducing CloudBerry Explorer for Nirvanix

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 22:30:00 EDT

Basically Nirvanix is another cloud storage platform, featuring pay as you use model with no commitment and upfront costs. There are a few important differences however. First, Nirvanix guarantees up to 100% (!) availability and it is up to you to select the SLA that works for your business. One of the features that caught my eye in Nirvanix is the ability to create child accounts within your master storage account. Furthermore, you can set storage and transfer quotas to every child account effectively controlling who is using what in your organization.

How to sync local folder with Amazon S3 bucket with CloudBerry S3 Explorer

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 12:35:00 EDT

Note: this post applies to CloudBerry Explorer 1.6.3 and later.

As always we are adding features that our customers are requesting. This time we decided to add an ability to synchronize the content of your local folder with Amazon S3 bucket. In other words now you can configure make sure the files on your local computer are identical to those in your Amazon S3 storage account. This might be helpful when you want to upload the recent copies of your local files to S3

How to configure synchronization?

First of all we have a new item in the program menu that will help you find the new feature easily.

Click Add Sync Folder to open a configuration dialog. In the opened dialog just enter display name, which is anything you want and will help reference the synchronization later. Choose the source and the target and select the path. Note that your currently selected folders on the left and on the right panel are taken automatically. The source can be a local computer or S3. Currently you can’t sync between S3 accounts but this is something we will add later.

If you are not happy with the selection just click the “…” button to browse the folder. You can browse local folders

… and your Amazon S3 storage account

How to synchronize the folder?

To sync the folders just go to the same program menu, choose the folder you want to sync and one of the options available as shown on the screen. As you can see you can

Sync Left to Right
Sync Right to Left
Sync both ways

The panel at the bottom of the screen will show you the synchronization progress

Looking ahead

Currently you can only manually synchronize the folders. In the future we will add the ability to specify a synchronization schedule. As always we are looking for your feedback and we are eager to improve the feature to make it work better for you!

Conclusion

The ability to sync the content of Amazon S3 bucket with the local folder is a huge productivity boost. No longer do you have to look for modified files and manually select them. CloudBerry Explorer will make it automatically on your behalf!

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The difference between the request time and the current time is too large

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 06:42:33 EDT

One of the common errors that Amazon S3 users come across is The difference between the requested time and the current time is too large. This error often occurs when your computer clock is not synchronized properly. Amazon returns error code if request doesn't come in a certain time interval.

We recommend to make sure your computer clock are set properly and http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/ can help. After synchronizing computer clock the error is usually gone.

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How to manage parallel data upload with CloudBerry S3 Explorer PRO

Sat, 03 Oct 2009 03:59:38 EDT

Note: this post applies to CloudBerry Explorer PRO 1.6.2 and later.

CloudBerry Explorer PRO 1.6 for Amazon S3 that came out about two weeks ago had one drawback. It was not easy for an average user to configure the number of threads used to transfer data to S3 easily. You had to edit the configuration file as explained in our previous post.

CloudBerry Lab team was quick to recognize the problem and make the fix. Now you can control the number of threads in the GUI. Just go to Tools| Options| Connection tab. You can change the Queue thread count to whatever value work for you. The default is 5 (was 2 in the previous release). Our test and our customers’ tests indicated that this value is about right. One of the customers told us that the transfer that used to take more than 3 days now takes less than 24 hours!

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