Cloud Storage Providers
The following providers have been certified with Retrospect 11 for Windows and Retrospect 13 for Mac.
Global Partners
Amazon S3
Amazon offers AWS Free Tier with 5GB of storage available for a year at no charge.
- Site - https://aws.amazon.com/s3/
- Setup Guide – How to Set Up an Amazon S3 Account
- Pricing – Find out more about Amazon S3 Pricing. Amazon also provides AWS Calculator to help understand the costs associated with your particular scenarios.
- Verified Upload Bandwidth – 20 Mbps
- Verified Download Bandwidth – 75 Mbps
- Seeding and Large Scale Recovery – AWS Import/Export
- Certified Regions – US Standard (N. Virginia), Oregon, N. California, Frankfurt, Ireland, Sydney, Singapore, Seoul, Tokyo, Sao Paulo, Mumbai. See AWS Global Infrastructure for more details.
- Certified Storage Classes – Standard, Infrequent Access, Glacier, Reduced Redundancy. See AWS S3 Storage Classes for more details.
Google Cloud Storage
Google offers a 60-day trial with a $300 credit to use on any service.
- Site - https://cloud.google.com/storage/
- Setup Guide – How to Set Up a Google Cloud Storage Account
- Pricing – Find out more about Google Cloud Storage Pricing. Google also provides Google Cloud Platform Pricing Calculator to help understand the costs associated with your particular scenarios.
- Verified Upload Bandwidth – 20 Mbps
- Verified Download Bandwidth – 100 Mbps
- Seeding and Large Scale Recovery – Offline Media Import/Export
- Certified Storage Classes – Standard, Durable Reduced Availability, Nearline. See Google Cloud Storage Classes for more details.
Dropbox
Dropbox offers 2GB free with a 1TB Pro plan as well as Dropbox Business.
- Site - https://dropbox.com
- Setup Guide – How to Set Up a Dropbox Account
- Pricing – Find out more about Dropbox Pricing.
- Seeding and Large Scale Recovery – Not available.
Regional Partners
DreamHost DreamObjects
We have negotiated a special discounted rate for Retrospect customers. See below.
- Location - United States
- Setup Guide – How to Set Up DreamHost for Cloud Backup
- Site - https://www.dreamhost.com/cloud/storage/
- Verified Upload Bandwidth – 20 Mbps
- Verified Download Bandwidth – 90 Mbps
- Seeding and Large Scale Recovery – Not available.
- Special Deal – 20% off on up to 2TB storage. See DreamHost DreamObjects for Retrospect.
Dunkel Cloud Storage
We have negotiated a special discounted rate for Retrospect customers. See below.
- Location - Germany
- Setup Guide – How to Set Up Dunkel Cloud Storage for Cloud Backup
- Site - https://www.dunkel.de/s3/
- Verified Upload Bandwidth – 20 Mbps
- Verified Download Bandwidth – 110 Mbps
- Seeding and Large Scale Recovery – Supported. Contact Dunkel for details.
- Special Deal – 40% off 12-month prepaid 1TB and 5TB plus €80 for Seeding. See Dunkel Cloud Storage for Retrospect.
Numergy Stockage
We have negotiated a special discounted rate for Retrospect customers. See below.
- Location - France
- Site - https://www.numergy.com/offres-cloud-stockage-donnees-a-l-usage
- Verified Upload Bandwidth – 20 Mbps
- Verified Download Bandwidth – 110 Mbps
- Seeding and Large Scale Recovery – Supported. Contact Numergy for details.
- Special Deal – 12% off on storage. Contact numergy@retrospect.com for details.
ArubaCloud Object Storage
- Location - France, Italy
- Site - https://www.arubacloud.com/object-storage/object-storage-by-aruba.aspx
- Verified Upload Bandwidth – 10 Mbps
- Verified Download Bandwidth – 50 Mbps
- Seeding and Large Scale Recovery – Not available.
Swisscom
- Location - Switzerland
- Site - https://www.swisscom.ch/en/business/enterprise/offer/cloud-data-center-services/iaas/dcs.html
- Seeding and Large Scale Recovery – Not available.
Software
Basho Riak S2
- Location - Free open-source software for private cloud storage
- Site - http://basho.com/products/riak-s2/
- Setup Guide – Cloud Backup - How to Set Up Private Cloud Storage with Basho Riak S2
Cloudian Hyperstore
- Location - Enterprise Object Storage Software
- Site - http://www.cloudian.com/
Cloud Backup Tips
- Bandwidth Measurement Tool – Measure your upload and download bandwidth with this free tool: Speedtest.net.
- Setup Guide - Cloud Backup - How to Set Up a Cloud Backup
- API Usage – Retrospect minimizes its cloud storage API requests (referred to as GET and PUT requests), but cloud providers do charge for these requests.
- Disable Backup Verification – Verification will download all of the data that you upload. See more details about why you should disable it for cloud backups in Cloud Backup - Best Practices for Data Protection with Cloud Storage.