Novosoft Expanding NAS Backup Software Capabilities: Use Cloud for Saving NAS With Handy Backup

Novosoft, LLC completes equipping its backup software solution, Handy Backup, with different plug-ins for using it as both NAS backup software and cloud storage utility for keeping data at some popular cloud services.

You can backup NAS to Amazon S3 or other cloud including Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive, as well as using the WebDAV interface for granting backup an access to any cloud, private (including NAS-based clouds) or public, which supports the WebDAV protocol.

“Now a user can backup NAS to Google Drive or to OneDrive, as well as to Amazon S3, Dropbox and some other clouds including Box and 4shared. As NAS backup software for cloud services, Handy Backup has all the capabilities to quickly set up and operate with network backup such as cloud backup. You can take an access to any cloud account, either directly or through WebDAV, according to your cloud setup and capabilities. Meanwhile, you may also encrypt and compress your data as well, schedule your cloud backup task as you wish, run any other program serving your NAS before or after a task, and do many other things, which are fully automated“, said Anton Chmarak, senior product manager, Handy Backup team.

Handy Backup 7 contains a set of plug-ins turning it into both the effective NAS backup software solution and the effective cloud connection tool. The ‘Network’ plug-in and the group of ‘Cloud’ plug-ins dedicated for online backup connection allows making different backup tasks in a fully automatic mode, including backup NAS to OneDrive, Google Drive, Amazon S3, Yandex.Disk and Handy Backup’ s own cloud service HBdrive, as well as transferring copies of accounts on these clouds to a dedicated NAS unit. Using the WebDAV protocol, this software also has a capability to use any cloud supporting WebDAV (including local and private clouds often raised on built-in NAS software) as both backup sources and storages.

Different editions of Handy Backup contain different sets of plug-ins, although the most cloud backup plug-ins are parts of a basic set included in the standard edition, as well as the dedicated ‘Network’ plug-in, designed for connecting local network storages (including NAS units) into a list of backup data sources. Operating with some or all these functions, a user can realize any strategy for using NAS backup software and cloud storages. Extra capabilities of Handy Backup, such as natively supporting all SQL databases and preserving native data formats (which allows granular restore of data, viewing and modifying backups without complete restoration, and some other tricks) make Handy Backup a choice for online backup.