I need Files and Folders backup of 300 Windows 8+ System. I opted One Drive Solution. So do i need to buy 300 License of One Drive for Business or Can i buy 1 license and can create and share 300 folders for each person?
In any of the option, the user can upload data to their space but admin can see all the folders.
You can map your OneDrive as a shared Drive on each machine. But in this case all data can be overlooked by administrator. Yes, like you said.
Have a look at OneDrive For Business probably. They have a licensing model per user. From security perspective this is much better for you.
A third-party tool e.g.Cloudberry MBS may be a solution in your case.It works rather well with any number of machines. What I like more is that the tool is intergrated with leading cloud storages like Amazon, Google, Openstack etc.
Firstly, at an enterprise level, we should not consider onedrive as cloud storage as it is a kind of online file sync service.
So, you should go for a backup software to manage your 300+ system's backup and restorations.
The main point of backing up is to preserve data the backup solution has to be bullet-proof. Thus, a backup solution has to be able to encrypt backups and securely transfer data over the network.
Veeam, Microsoft DPM and other EMC products can be an option but it totally depends upon the backup requirements.
you need software which can backup your data to any preferred storage like NAS and Cloud. You can try Cloudberry Backup Software as it provides "Cloud to Cloud", "Cloud to Local" and "Local to Cloud"
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I am building a UWP app that targets both x86, x64 and ARM platforms. I want to replace the current implementation that uses Azure for the backed (an App Service and an SQL Server) because of the high price and because my Pay-As-You-Go subscription does not allow me to set a spending limit.
I thought about using a local database but I don't know if that could be a solution since I want the user to be able to have his data synced on both PC and phone for example. I am also ok with renouncing the idea of a structured database in favor of structured files (like xml) if I can find a way to keep them somewhere in the cloud (and then I can read/write them from the client app - no need for App Service).
Are there any free, non-trial alternatives to Azure? Or should I look more into the file storage implementation? Thanks in advance.
Instead of Azure you could use another web hosting solution to publish you API. Azure also offers small free plans that might be sufficient.
An alternative would be to request access and store/sync data to user's OneDrive. Each logged in user with Microsoft Account should have OneDrive storage available so this is a good middle-ground, which is still free for you. A nice introduction to this can be found in this article.
UWP also offers RoamingFolder where you can store small files that are synced across the devices that you use. Unfortunately this is less reliable because you are not able to control when the sync happens and cannot resolve conflicts.
I have successfully migrated to another cloud platform: Heroku. In my opinion, at least for small apps, Heroku offers the best solution both technology-wise and price-wise.
I am now able to have a webservice hosted for free in the cloud, without worring about traffic and number of requests. Of course you can scale up if you want better performance, but you can start with a free plan. Also, I have a postgressql db hosted also in the cloud, also for free (up until 10 000 records, and it will be just 9$/month if I want to upgrade to 10 milion). One can never found an offer like this free on Azure.
I had to learn a bit of Node.js (there are a lot of languages Heroku supports for backend services, but .Net is not one of them) but it was totally worth it!
Another option that is now starting to gain more and more popularity is FireBase. I will certantly also check that out for my future apps.
I've been backing up my Mac to the Amazon S3 cloud using Jungle Disk. Now that Mac is dead. Fine, my backups are on the cloud. So, I go to my other Mac and download Jungle Disk. It is a workgroup version of the software. When I run it it wants me to verify that I purchased the software. Well, when I first set up the Jungle Disk client some years ago there was a free client. I'd rather not pay for this unless there's no good alternative.
Next I login to my Amazon S3 Console. I have a bunch of buckets there which are impossible to navigate.
So, I google around for S3 browsers and find Cyberduck. I download and install that. When I run it it wants a server URL. At this point I'm stuck.
Is there a client that knows about the structure of backups in S3 that I can install on this other Mac to get to my backed up data?
After a couple of conversations with Jungle Disk support I was given this (undocumented) url:
https://downloads.jungledisk.com/jungledisk/JungleDiskDesktop3160.dmg
I've downloaded and installed the client, didn't have to pay anything, and I've gotten to my backed up data. Whew!
Sol got his stuff fixed. Sharing additional background for future readers. Jungle Disk uses the WebDAV standard to allow access through our web service layer. Depending on the version of Jungle Disk you're running we have a few different URLs you'll authenticate to. Ping our team at support.jungledisk.com and we'll get you setup.
I am using a shared host. No root access. I want to transfer files between the host and any online storage. The target is to take online backup and restore files from storage to host directly without download/upload. Kindly suggest me some way.
Mover.io is an online service that helps you easily transfer files and folders from one cloud storage service to another. The service works on a freemium model – you can transfer up to 10 GB of data for free and then pay $1 per extra GB of transfer.
Mover has connectors for all popular cloud storage providers. You may copy files from your Google Drive to Dropbox, from SkyDrive to Box or even from your old Google account to the new one. They also support FTP allowing you to directly transfer files from Google Drive or Dropbox to your FTP server, over the cloud.
I would like to access my Amazon S3 buckets without third-party software, but simply through the WebDAV functionality available in most operating systems. Is there a way to do that ? It is important to me that no third-party software is required.
There's a number of ways to do this. I'm not sure about your situation, so here they are:
Option 1: Easiest: You can use a 3rd party "cloud gateway" provider, like http://storagemadeeasy.com/CloudDav/
Option 2: Set up your own "cloud gateway" server
Set up a dedicated server or virtual server to act as a gateway. Using Amazon's own EC2 would be a good choice.
Set up software that mounts S3 as a drive. Two I know of on Windows: (1) CloudBerry Drive http://www.cloudberrylab.com/ and (2) WebDrive (http://webdrive.com). For Linux, I have never done it, but you can try: https://github.com/s3fs-fuse/s3fs-fuse
Set up a webdav server like CrushFTP. (It comes to mind because it's stable and cheap and works on any OS.) Another option is IIS but I personally find it's harder to set up securely for webdav.
Set up a user in your WebDav server (ie CrushFTP or IIS) with access to the mapped S3 drive.
Possible snag: Assuming you're using Windows, to start your services automatically and have this work, you may need to set up both services to use the same Windows user account (Services->(Your Service)->[right-click]Properties->Log On tab). This is because the S3 mapping software might not map the S3 drive for all Windows users. Alternatively, you can use FireDaemon if you get stuck on this step to start the programs as a service all under the same username.
Other notes: I have experience using WebDrive under pretty heavy loads, and it seems to work well. Under tons of pounding (I'm talking thousands of files per hour being added to a 5 TB WebDrive) it started to crash Windows. But I'm not sure if you are going that far with it. Also, if you're using EC2, you may not have that issue since it was likely caused by a huge transfer queue in memory and EC2 will have faster transit to S3 and keep the queue smaller.
I finally gave up on this idea and today I use Rclone (https://rclone.org) to synchronize my files between AWS S3 and different computers. Rclone has the ability to mount remote storage on a local computer, but I don't use this feature. I simply use the copy and sync commands.
S3 does not support webdav, so you're out of luck!
Also, S3 does not support hierarchial name spaces, so you cant directly map a filesystem onto it
There is an example java project here for putting a webdav server over Amazon S3 - https://github.com/miltonio/milton-aws
I am looking for a "free" IaaS service as an alternative to EC2 which will let me SSH into a system with full user permissions (create/delete files, install services, libraries and applications from the repository).
Tried OpenShift but ended up leaving due to strict permission policy on the SSH. Heroku, dotCloud, CloudFoundry.com, Stackato are PaaS providers. Rackspace and Linode might have what I need but are not free.
Is my own home server or EC2 are the only two options that I have? For the curious, I want to deploy my entire .vim folder and .vimc file for development on the cloud from a computer when I am not at home.
It seems like you want something for free that is not provided anywhere for free. I know its a shame, but it is reasonable that companies would charge for such a thing. Given that you want it for free I am guessing that you don't need much power or anything large scale. In that case I would look into the cheaper end of Virtual Private servers or a micro instance on EC2. VPS servers start at around $20 a month and a micro server starts at $14. Of course for the microserver you will have to pay a little extra for bandwidth and probably and EBS volume. Additionally AWS offers a free tier which pretty much allows you to run a micro instance with EBS for the first year.